Enticing doctors' spouses to small towns

“Well, the mayor has appointed us as the Commission to Attract a New Doctor,” Harry “Butch” Wayssen announced to the group gathered in the city library to deliberate. The fifth member, Marilyn Dosset, was late, waiting for her oatmeal-coconut cookies to finish baking.

“My new friend, Dr. Erick, who has 50 years of experience as a small city doctor, tells me that that we have failed to recruit doct...