Before telephones, those needing a doctor would have to go after him. I rode over there, awakened the doctor, he got up, dressed, went to the barn and harnessed his horse, hitched him to a buggy and drove over there. The lot of a family doctor was full of hardship and sacrifice. But they came, wet or dry, cold or hot. Now the most doctors have clinics where the patients often meet him.
People cooperate in nursing the sick.
Often sitting up nights with seriously sick ones. Now, a great many of us carry hospitalization insurance. Now we are carried to a well-equipped hospital for treatment and nursing by experts. We are all informed how we secured the Sumner County Memorial Hospital in Gallatin. A few tragedies occurred in or near our communities that might be of interest to recall.