Nurses in the Wilderness by Ruth L. Ewers

Author:Ruth L. Ewers
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Highlights for Children, Inc.
Published: 2016-01-15T00:00:00+00:00

One of Mary’s first clinics was little more than a hut in the Kentucky forest.

To the grateful mountain people, Mary and the nurses seemed to be everywhere. They treated everything from cut fingers to pneumonia, gave shots, and delivered babies. Their patients joked that they finally knew where babies came from—the nurses brought them in their saddlebags! The proud country folk liked the nurses because they treated everyone with respect.

Sometimes neighbors helped the nurses carry patients to the isolated clinics.

The Frontier Nursing Service grew, and today the Mary Breckinridge Hospital still cares for patients in Hyden, Kentucky, just a few miles from Wendover. But the work of the Nursing Service now reaches far beyond the Kentucky mountains.

Today, medical professionals from all over the world come to Wendover to study rural health care in action. When these men and women go back to their own countries, they’re prepared to help people in need—people like the mountain folk of Kentucky, who might have been left behind if not for Mary and her nurses in the wilderness.

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