Gus J. Prosch, Jr., MD: November 17, 1930 to June 7, 2005.(In Memoriam)(Obituary)

From: Townsend Letter for Doctors and Patients | Date: August 1, 2005| Author: | Copyright information

It was sometime in 1981 when I received a most peculiar telephone call. A "Dr. Prosch" was on the phone, and he wanted to talk to me about driving up from Birmingham, Alabama to visit me at my home and office in Franklin, Tennessee.

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I can remember in the early 1940's when our family doctor, Dr. Smiley, sat beside my mother's bedside at our home, waiting for signs of recovery from pneumonia during a winter time in Mason City, Iowa. Scratching my head very hard, I could only remember one other time when a pediatrician visited our home in Mobile, ...

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