Country Doctor

Gish captures the lives of Caudill and nurse colleague Susie Halbleib by converting oral history into creative performance.

~Choice

An important record in the success of rural medicine.... Readers get a closer look at mountain medicine before ambulances, interstate highways, and intensive care units.

~Family Medicine

A welcome wave in what we can hope will be a storm surge of scholarly works on the women of Kentucky.

~Filson Club History Quarterly

Chronicles the life and accomplishments of a woman born and raised in Kentucky who did her best to improve life in her hometown and surrounding area.

~Kentucky Monthly

Thanks in part to Gish's great book, Caudill's good works will be remembered for generations to come.

~Lexington Herald-Leader

It is a measure of the book that it leaves the reader wishing to know more.

~Louisville Courier-Journal

An impressive human being who had a unique effect on her friends, patients, and community.

~Patricia Van Metre, Emerita

While reading Country Doctor... it is impossible to ignore the emotional and physical hardiness required of rural practitioners and how much a rural community can benefit, in some cases, from the development of a rural hospital.

~Texas Journal of Rural Health

Gish has made a major contribution to history in bringing attention to one of the most dedicated and fascinating Kentuckians of our time.... It is simply a story of determination and goodness and one that ought to go down as a model for a younger generation.

~The Voice-Tribune

Lively, informative, and engaging. A warm and convincing picture of life in the town of Morehead and the surrounding area of Eastern Kentucky.

~Wallace A. Bacon