Dr. Dalton: A continuing personal Appalachian triumph - Paperback

by Lisa M. Cummins (Author), James T. Cummins (Author)

Dr. Dalton Bowland works as a family practitioner at a lucrative, multi-specialty practice in an upper-middle-class suburb of Columbus, Ohio. According to his colleagues - and his fat bank account - his career has been fabulously successful thus far. Why, then, does he feel so uninspired?Quitting his job at the Ohio practice, Dr. Bowland makes a long-overdue visit to the rural Kentucky medical clinics established decades earlier by his deceased parents' charitable foundation. The shock of what he discovers there, along with the desperate needs of the people he meets, will change his life forever."Dr. Dalton" is the sequel to the novel "Orchard Hill," which tells the story of Raybun and Penelope Bowland, the parents of Dalton Bowland. Orchard Hill describes how Raybun and his friends established their charitable foundation and their fledgling efforts to build the rural Kentucky clinic system which Dalton later rediscovers.