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E. J. , Mountain Doctor, and the Challenge in Ellijay

Roger Bolton

出版	CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2015-10-07
主題	Biography & Autobiography / Personal Memoirs
ISBN	15171737799781517173777
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=DwWIjgEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋

E. J. Fernandez, M.D., was the most fascinating individual and physician the author ever knew. He was Chief of Staff on a four physician staff in a 50 bed hospital in the small city of Ellijay, Gilmer County, Georgia. As Chief of Staff, he played a key role in action taken that led to the near closing and then restoration of the hospital. E. J. graduated from Havana School of Medicine, and had to flee Cuba when Fidel Castro ordered that he be arrested for opposing the revolution. After completing a residency program in Tennessee, he located in Ellijay, Georgia, and combined a general practice with surgery, but, also, for a time traveled to hospitals in Blue Ridge and Jasper, Georgia, doing surgery in both places because of a shortage of surgeons in the area. A large medical center in Atlanta, desiring to build a hospital system, purchased Watkins Memorial Hospital, but failed to understand that operating a small hospital in a small town was far different from operating a big city medical center. This lack of understanding led to decisions that should never have been made, and created an environment where things happened that should never have happened. It provided a setting in which E. J. challenged one of the physicians to a duel, giving him his choice of weapons.