Back when doctors actually knew their patients. These photos are stunning.
For his 1948 feature “Country Doctor” — republished here, in its entirety, for the first time online, with all of the photos — LIFE magazine photographer W. Eugene Smith spent 23 days in Kremmling, Colorado, shadowing general practitioner Ernest Ceriani. See more here.
(via jayparkinsonmd)
Notes: Physicians traditionally were part of...community. They made house calls and knew a...
my uncle was a country doctor, my mother was a nurse and worked with him for a while, I stayed with him as a child and...