When I first came to town, I delivered babies. I used to deliver four or five children in a family. Families aren t having that many children now. And there s less family bonding while people are getting older and need families more. Medicine, he s convinced, is on the wrong course.
People can t afford it.
At some point we re going to have to start taking care of each other. In the meantime, he s going to be 70 his next birthday, and he s ready to spend time with his family, finish the remodeling he and Louise have been trying to do on their home for the past five or six years, take care of his rose garden and play in the stock market on the Internet. I enjoy that, he says, even though we re in a bad market now. I ve come completely out of it. But he won t stay out of it.