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The Town's “Big Man”
"The only doctor is the small town's “b;g man. says rhe Patriot, of Harrisburg. Pennsylvania. “His home is usually the town showplace. Sometimes, so in his life.”
This was inspired by what happened in k ameron. Louisiana last . June, when hurricane Audrey razed the community and took a ghastly toll of death and destruction. There was but one doctor there. His home J was totally destroyed. He did not, for long hours, know what had happeiicd tohis family. Then Ik learned that his three daughters ha<l perished in the flood. Yet. a Cameron citizen said. “He.just kept working, raking care of the injured as though nothing had happened.’
The;Patriot quotes the Hippocratic Oath which all physicians take: “So far as [rower and discernment shall be mine, 1 will carry out regi■'men for benefit of the sick, and I will keep them from harm and wrong. . And that Oath goes on to say: “If I shall fulfill this Oath and break it not. may the fruits of my life and of art be mine, may 1 bf honored of all men for all time. ..."
This doctor in ruined Cameron lived up to that Oath under the most trying circumstances conceivable, rhe Patriot observes that he will rebuihf his home as his community rebuilds, and that his new one may be a show place—” But it always will be only a dull patch compared to the showplace that is his life.'" There is a symbolism here. All over the country, in little towns and great cities, other doctors are quietly and effectively carrying out their Oath, and placing duty above all other considerations. They do this as a matter of course, in ordinary: times as well as in emergencies. Their lives are showplaces.
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