Publisher's Synopsis
This local history has a broad application to a number of historical types: institutional history, community history, regional history, period history, social history and medical history. This account of Wadley Regional Medical Centre gives a complete chronological history of all the major departments within a regional medical centre over the course of a century. It also describes the interaction of hospital employees in times of acute stress, as well as times of major accomplishment. It is based on extensive hospital records, board of directors minutes, in-house publications, newspaper articles, trade publication articles and 75 oral histories.
