Posted on 12/26/2014 6:28:47 AM PST by w1n1
Dr. John Rob Marsh was already more than 12 hours into his workday last Tuesday when he rolled up to a tiny darkened house in Vesuvius, an out-of-the-way town in Virginias Shenandoah Valley.
His willingness to come out here when we need him well, its the kind of attitude you dont find that much anymore, she said. Were just fortunate.
Tirelessness and the confidence to operate alone in a crisis key requirements for rural physicians were drilled into him in his previous job as the doctor for the Armys elite Delta Force antiterrorism unit.
Read the full Former Delta Force Doctor named Top Rural Physician in America here.
Blessed best of the best.
If I had to do it all over again, I would want to be a country doctor like this guy... only I would refuse to accept insurance, I don’t care what some polititian says. Cash or barter only. Reasonable rates. No electronic filing of medical records... 0bamacare? What’s that? But if you need a broken bone set, or that chainsaw wound stitched up, granny has a touch of the rheumatism, your wife just went into labor, or you dislocated your shoulder... I’d be the guy to see.
That is another one of those sites where the popups make the article almost unreadable.
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