“I liked the people I took care of - I liked the personalities of the families and the people.” “What did I like most about the Army? It was taking care of soldiers and their families,” he said. It’s a distinction that has been given to standout doctors in communities of 30,000 or less since 1992 by Staff Care, a division of the medical staffing company AMN Healthcare. His willingness to do it all for his rural patients - sewing up wounds at his office, hospital care, home visits at all hours - this month earned him the 2014 Country Doctor of the Year Award. “It’s just a fairly typical Tuesday,” he said as he drove.Īrmy background Marsh, 59, is no typical doctor. He wouldn’t make it home to his farm and family in the village of Middlebrook until the wee hours. At midnight, he was back in Lexington to admit two patients who’d come to the emergency room. He visited patients in an assisted living facility, made nightly rounds at a hospital in Lexington and then drove 20 miles back to Raphine, to the closer of the two doctor’s offices he maintains, to fill out insurance paperwork. Then Marsh headed off along dark country roads in his Chevy pickup.
Marsh emerged from her mother’s room, delivered some instructions and gently put his hands on Terrell’s shoulders and urged her to take care of herself, too. One of these days he may be coming out to see me.”
“His willingness to come out here when we need him - well, it’s the kind of attitude you don’t find that much anymore,” she said.
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Marsh’s readiness to make nighttime house calls after a full day at the office has been a lifeline for her mother, said Carolyn Terrell.
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