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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’.