The Horse and Buggy Doctor Book

I gave this book four stars because it is a perspective unlike any I've read before, simply because it is a seemingly honest citizen's perspective about medical practice as it occurred during his many decades as a doctor. This book was written in the 1930s so this perspective is almost 100 years old, and is very interesting. He emphasizes the human aspect of the doctor/patient relationship, and the general 'gut feeling' type of knowledge that gets obscured by scientific particularities today. I did not appreciate many of his comments that belittled women, which are thinly veiled by a few references to men as the "weaker sex." He also wrote secretively about things that "one who knows would understand" but which are not obvious anymore. He also tends to go on and on sometimes ... at points an entire half of a chapter could have been left out without harm to the narrative. This aside, I appreciated much of his abruptly sarcastic remarks and the freshness of perspective.