Charles Bagby grew up in Sidney, Nebraska. He entered Nebraska Wesleyan University in 1952 with the intent of becoming an ordained minister in the United Methodist Church. As often happens in college, it took a year or two to find his true calling – medicine. He graduated from medical school in 1960. An internship, a tour of duty in the U.S. Army, and advanced training in surgery and obstetrics followed. In 1964 he joined a practice in Blair, Nebraska, a town then of about 5,500 people located some twenty-five miles north of Omaha. He retired after 41 years of practice, and lives in Blair with Carole, his wife of 62 years. He has emeritus designation on the medical staff of Blair’s Memorial Community Hospital and Health Systems. A couple of years ago, as the medical staff was struggling to understand and implement new, never-ending and voluminous government regulations, one younger colleague commented, “Dr. Bagby, you practiced medicine during the ‘GOLDEN YEARS’ ” – thus the title of this book. Those with any experience with the administrative face of medicine during the last decade or so will need no further explanation of the word ‘golden’.
NUGGETS FROM THE GOLDEN AGE OF MEDICINE
No Relationship to Money
by Kenneth Charles Bagby, M.D.
NUGGETS FROM THE GOLDEN AGE OF MEDICINE
No Relationship to Money
by Kenneth Charles Bagby, M.D.
Published Jun 18, 2018
99 Pages
Genre: MEDICAL / Family & General Practice
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“Wherever The Art of Medicine is Loved, There Also is the Love of Humanity” – Hippocrates
The stories related in this book are all true-life experiences. For the most part I have tried to emphasize the positive and sometimes humorous nature of these stories. Some I have shared with the several hundred medical students who through the years have spent their medical school family practice rotations in our clinic. Those rotations and these real-life stories have served to help everyone to better understand the nature and responsibilities of family practice in a rural community in which many of them will choose to live. The process of writing has made me realize even more so that through the years it has been an HONOR and a PRIVILEGE to have been included in some of the most joyful, and in the most stressful times of the lives of the patients and families who entrusted their care to me. – K. C. Bagby, M.D.