For his 1948 feature “Country Doctor” — republished here, in its entirety, for the first time online, with all of the photos — LIFE magazine photographer W. Eugene Smith spent 23 days in Kremmling, Colorado, shadowing general practitioner Ernest Ceriani. See more here.  Don’t you wish there were more travelling doctors? I always thought it to be more personal when a family doctor would come to the house rather than sitting on a butcher sheet at a hospital waiting for a stranger to treat you like every other patient.

For his 1948 feature “Country Doctor” — republished here, in its entirety, for the first time online, with all of the photos — LIFE magazine photographer W. Eugene Smith spent 23 days in Kremmling, Colorado, shadowing general practitioner Ernest Ceriani. See more here. 

Don’t you wish there were more travelling doctors? I always thought it to be more personal when a family doctor would come to the house rather than sitting on a butcher sheet at a hospital waiting for a stranger to treat you like every other patient.

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