Medicine in a Small, Small Town

When 86-year-old Dallas Gaines of Scobey, Mont., woke up with the classic symptoms of stroke last October, the only doctor in the county was out hunting whitetail bucks on a sea of prairie stretching from one horizon to the other. Donald Sawdey, M.D., had just lined up his shot when the emergency call arrived from the clinic. Even out in the great beyond, deer know to run when they hear a ringing cellphone. “Next time I’ll keep it on vibrate,” the doctor says. … Back to Article