Mule in the Well: Story of Undying Love Kindle Edition

“All I ever wanted to be was a country doctor, a ‘pretty good’ one. Call it what you may, I’ve never wanted to compromise any service. Nevertheless, today’s patients’ qualities of medical care may be no more than what the they can afford. God, you know I’ve tried to disprove that – an exercise in futility. Much of life necessarily involves compromises. Frequently, some hockey smelling like a form of passion affects those, as an element in this world’s trials. Choices made, our hope for salvation is in God’s mercy.” Jacob A. Freskin. M.D.Absent cliches and punctuated with humor, the fiction based-on-fact novel is both a Love Story and a Doctor Story like no other. It focuses on a Tennessee farm boy, whose moral convictions and brilliance steer his graduating from medical school in 1934, at the age of twenty. However, life’s circumstances find him in Mississippi Delta’s milieu of contending, startling, and demoralizing complexities that incumber his potential capabilities in addressing those contests in clinic, home, plantation manors, and shotgun houses day and night. Herewith, a subculture little chronicled in medical history is exposed, through the demonstrations of one vulnerable American doctor’s experiences, who was among a virtually extinct breed, circa 1934-1963. Too, it is an extraordinary Love Story, one without reciprocations. And the doctor’s wife’s taxing mental problems and her father’s exploitations are enormously costly. In the face of paltry recompense, the doctor’s challenges are to remain faithful to his wife, competent for his patients’ sake, and available to all, while finding personal happiness. How valuable family and friends prove to be! Read more