He established a practice in the town of Villaneuve, where he became a popular figure.
Looming large in the family lore was Uncle Joe, who was graduated from medical school in 1915 and established a practice in the town of Bainbridge, where he built the largest hospital for black people in the state of Georgia.
Dr. Schaffner is now a specialist in geriatrics; Ms. Harper's 87-year-old mother lives in Connecticut; recently, Ms. Harper took her to Dr. Schaffer's practice in the town of Essex and decided to retain her as her mother's doctor.
Dr. Hassan A. Julaq, 39, was an orthopedist practicing in the town of Kafr Nabl, along the main Aleppo-Damascus highway, when about 200 soldiers established an outpost right outside his home.
Medical practice in the towns of developing countries is characterized by a proliferation of many small private hospitals, usually owned by doctors, that have developed to meet the widespread need for hospital care not otherwise available.
"There's a prayer around here," said State Representative Randall B. Luthi, the Republican majority floor leader in the House, who raises cattle and practices law in the town of Freedom.
One of my great-grandfathers, James Shepley, was born in Saco, Maine, in 1826, went to Bowdoin College, and set up a law practice in the frontier town of Red Cloud, Minnesota, where he had a hand in the writing of the state constitution.
Gabriele de' Mussi, born circa 1280, practiced as a notary in the town of Piacenza, over the mountains just north of Genoa.
After being admitted to the bar in 1817 he practiced successfully in the towns of Bloomsburg and Danville and was appointed president of the District Court of Allegheny County in 1833.
After Dr. Javier Saenz completed his family-medicine residency in 1985, he returned home to the Rio Grande Valley to open a practice in the impoverished town of La Joya.
Dr. Heim married, had two sons and had a gynecology practice in the spa town of Baden-Baden, in southwest Germany, where the family lived in a stately white villa.
