As It Was ... But Not Now

<p>In 1923 in Andalusia Alabama twenty-odd miles north of the Florida line a physician was born. It's a place deep in the piney woods that was an area of sand beds sand roads and sandspurs. In <I>As It Was ... But Not Now</I> Dr. Joseph Merrill tells his story that began in that little town more than ninety years ago.</p> <p>In this memoir Merrill recalls a boy educated in the public schools of the rural South who was transformed into a physician. NIH and Baylor College of Medicine provided him an environment to study the vagaries of academic medicine in America's changing health care industry.</p> <p>Filled with anecdotes and stories from his youth to his college days in medical school to his career as a physician Merrill offers a look at the life of a doctor and the ebb and flow of the practice of medicine.</p>