A country doctor’s thanksgiving

Read a country doctor’s thoughts about this traditional holiday in his adopted country. And enjoy my photographs from visits to other parts of rural America.

When I started blogging I looked at other medical blogs since I knew next to nothing about blogging. I was intrigued with a blog by a Swedish immigrant doctor who writes about his lengthy career practicing medicine in rural Maine. He calls it appropriately A Country Doctor Writes, because that’s what he is.

I guess I’m American enough, after spending ten more years here (Maine) than in Sweden, to start to get a little philosophical at Thanksgiving. I spent my first Thanksgiving in this country not far from where the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock, as an exchange student with a Jewish family, three houses down from an African American family in an otherwise white Anglo Saxon distant suburb of Boston.

Dr. Hans Duvevelt

Continue at the link to read his thoughts about this traditional holiday in his adopted country. And enjoy my photographs from visits to other parts of rural America.

Another Thanksgiving Reflection

A Country Doctor Writes: CONDITIONS: Diseases and Other Life Circumstances

by Hans Duvevelt, MD

photos by Dr. Aletha

The above photos were shot at
  • upper left corner- near Canon City, Colorado
  • lower left corner-Chandler, Oklahoma
  • middle right-Madrid, New Mexico
  • all others -rural northeast Georgia

sharing the HEART of thankfulness

Author: Aletha Cress Oglesby, M.D.

As a family physician, I explore the HEART of HEALTH in my work, recreation, community, and through writing. My blog, Watercress Words, informs and inspires us to live in health. I believe we can turn our health challenges into healthy opportunities. When we do, we can share the HEART of health with our families, communities, and the world. Come explore and share with me.

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