Show Logan Ufan Thursday July 76 But those will run you 82 1V79 Herald Journal if Dr Lydia Emery still will make house calls By Tom Tiede Burn lu Mcnnonite parents in Iowa she was taught from the first that though it's no shame to be poor it is to be greedy "I've never had much interest in money" she says: she became a physician so she could be useful rather than wealthy - YONCALLA Ore (NEA) When Lydia Emery came t thii community following World War II to take upreiidence ta a physician It was apparent she as nd an ordinary doctor For one thing she charge only $1 for an office visit and $2 for a house call rates well below the prevailing custom Toda' three decades after hanging out her shingle Dr Emery hasn't changed much if at all She still charges most patients $1 for office visits and $2 for Bouse calls The rates are no longer merely below custom obviously: they’re quite probably the lowest — by far — in all of the Americas far — insl of the Americas And the good doctor doesn't just give a pat and prescription for the fees She sees patients in the kitchen of her home where she may serve milk and eookies asd the specialty is personal attention Dr Emery wiS spend 45 minutes on an adult physical examination for instance Charge: S3 Medicare? It's not needed here Health insurance? Blue Cross odficials say Dr Emery's fees are lower than the postage needed to process them When she sees three or four children from a family at once the remarkable MD consolidates the fees for con venience A buck and a quarter the lot At the beginning of her practice actually there was some question whether Dr Emery would be useful Few women were graduating from medical school in those days and popular prejudices doomed many of those who did to narrow pursuits Fatefully however World War II changed the attitudes con house-callin- siderably When increasing numbers of male physicians were needed overseas in the combat zone the military began soliciting women doctors to fill hospitals at home Dr Emery was among them She was assigned to Navy family medicine and to hell with chauvinism She's been working in general practice since Some of the bias against women doctors surfaced again after the war but Dr Emery avoided it by moving to Yoncalla This village of 675 people rlose by the Coastal mountain range already had a woman medic Emery joined her in 1949 and soon inherited most of the medical business for miles around That business has been a mixed bag The Yoncalla area was once populated by 25 sawmills — and before safety regulations were legislated Emery says the job accidents were frequent and ugly Also the area is isolated so many od her patients through the years have been medically neglected For the most part though the doctor has concentrated on routine family service She fixes car aches pinkeye and skinned knees Monday through Everywhere else in the nation doctors charge tl-2for tongue depressors They insist lower fees would not keep them in golf balls But Lydia Emery age 69 says she’s not interested in profits when prescriptions must be called in here for example she often pays the long distance herself She came by her magnanimity naturally it seems Children are her favorites she's been local treating youngsters for so long that she's now the honorary director of Yoncalla's kindergarten She put her office in her kitchen because of the children She wants them to feel at home The Band Aids are by the coffee cups the stethoscope is on the sink and the Kleenex is under the wall antlrrs It's still no fun being sick but kids say visiting Dr Emery is like going to see grandma Sometimes the patients don't go to grandma's by the way She comes to them Dr Emery is one of the g nation's last physicians and when needed she travels day or night She goes to the home of shut-in- s mostly and very often the $2 charge will no longer cover the gasoline The fuel apart Dr Emery says her professional overhead is minimal She says she docs not try to be Denton Cooley She keeps no machine nor anything more complex than a blood pressure device F'le doesn't even administer injections for that would necessitate keeping sterilization paraphernalia "I'm limited in what I have" she says "and I'm limited in what I can do” Therefore what she does largely is hold hands counsel preventive medicine and screen more serious problems for the region’s clinics and hospitals She does this well patients testify and of course reasonably The doctor is so reasonable patients add they often must force her to charge them more One reason is they are embarrassed Another is that everyone knows that even when Lydia Emery does make a small profit from her practice she regularly gives it a way to one of Yoncalla's charities Sunday X-r- - He starts out by Ore (UPI) hand holding your You end up squeezing his Meet Murry Griffith 83 the sexiest sassiest manicurist and pedicurist this side of your old ragged cuticle “Sure I have a foot fetish" laughs the oldest student of Portland’s Beau Monde College of Beauty “If I could do your toes and hold your leg and hold your hand all at the same time believe me I'd do it” For all the braggadocio Murry — called Cigarette by his buddies during the many years he worked on the railroad and had a smokeeternally dangling from his lip — would probably run if you tried to give him a tip let alone a hug "He's just delightful” said Dianna Martin Beau who Murry slightly inMonde's discreetly calls "Sweet Pie” “I just admire him” Dianna said “Think of all the older people who don't do anything with their talents And here's Murry coming in to apply to beauty' college when he's 83" Murry's course will Consist oif 350 hours in nine weeks oif study He’s already paid $300 tuition for it And he doesn't plan to take a penny for his manicure and pedicure skills once he graduates "I’m going to go out and do nails for the people in nursing homes” he said quietly “Why?” he repeated “Well I was messing around once where I shouldn't have and me and the law frowned on each other for a while They asked me to do some civic service” Murry chose Kearney Care Center and began helping with patients "Some of the people there were so neglected as to owner-manag- p a:y 4 fi T i 1 v y Final Week! WHAT BRIGHT NEW IDEAS Reflections the nice little beautiful things of life” he said "1 saw one woman with her leg in a cast whose toenails were about two inches long I kept thinking I've had pedicures and manicures at the beauty college because of my busted up nails Why not learn how to give them so I can help somebody else look good and feelgood?” Waggling your fingers massaging your hands with pretty pink cream Murry muses again: "I want to be good at this I want to be right And I want to be able to walk into some of those rest homes and say 'Honey would you like a manicure?’" Then the raconteur can't resist teasing as a woman classmate saunters by: "That's one of the problems with being a student here You have all these beautiful women around you and then you have to go home to just one at night” Murry and his wife Hazel can mutually tease over his Errol Flynn role Murry has two grown sons and six grandchildren by a previous marriage and Hazel and he just attended the wedding of the oldest granddaughter "I have a lot to be thankful for” he said looking thoughtfully at the hand he massaged "I’ve worked in China and Alaska and almost every country in the world except 28 of them — I counted I've had a good er The good doctor sees her patients in her kitchen Milk and cookies are often served Charge: $1 Cache Valley Mall (Newspaper Enterprise Assn) Still learning at 83 PORTLAND Dr Lydia Emery says she can keep fees down because her professional overhead is minimal her Lighting HAS! 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