# What happened to the family doctor?

- Link: https://www.widthness.com/what-happened-to-the-family-doctor/
- Published: 2023-09-15T09:30:38-05:00
- Author: Curated by John Wysocki

Image credit: Min Heo for Vox. Article by Dylan Scott. Vox – September 14, 2023. Soon after Dr. Gerard Weigel moved his family to Somerset, Kentucky, in the mid-1960s, he found himself not only the town’s only primary care doctor but the only doctor of any kind — the cardiologist, endocrinologist, and pulmonologist for each patient at his practice. In a 1967 Mercury Monterey — ”It looked just like Steve McGarrett’s car on Hawaii Five-O,” his son, Dr. Joseph Weigel, recalls — his father would drive around the town of 10,000 to see patients at their homes. […] Click here to view original web page at www.vox.com