Mary Finch finished unpacking the kitchen to her satisfaction and after a quick swipe of the counter checked it off her to do list and decided that she was done unpacking for the day. She and her husband Todd and their two kids, Jenny and Sam, had just moved into their new house in Green Valley, a sleepy little town in 1968 central Ohio. They had moved there so that her husband could take a promotion as the head of testing at the new factory his company was setting up.

Mary was happy to be moving back to the town where she had grown up. Her kids were sad to miss their old friends, but the father of their best friend Sally, had also taken a job at the new factory. The families had always been close and had found adjoining properties to buy.

Looking over her list of to dos, she saw that she still need to find a doctor for Jenny and Sam. It was only June, but they would need back to school physicals and to get their shots up to date before fall semester started. In fact, she had gotten exam forms from the school when she had registered them. Now how to find a doctor? She was sure that her old doctor was retired by now.

She picked up the phone and dial her old friend Barbra, who had never left Green Valley. "Hello, this is the Smith residence, Steve Smith speaking." "Oh hi Steve, this is Mary Finch. Is Barbra around?" "Yes, Mary. I'll get her for you."

"Mary, how are you doing?" "I am doing great Barb, just plowing through the endless list of getting the house together. That is why I called you. I need to get a doctor for the kids and I have no idea who is still practicing. I assume old doc "bend over" Burnes is retired."

Barb laughed at that. They had both been treated by Dr. Burnes growing up. Overall, he had been a kind and gentle man, but his liberal use of penicillin shots as a cure all had earned him the nick name of doc bend over among his patients. Still, despite all the sore butts, she had found memories of him.

"Oh yes, he went into semi retirement a few years ago. He still will help out with house calls for Valley Care from time to time, but he's not taking on patients. You will want to call Valley Care. They are really the only doctors in town taking on kids. They will treat them until they are 21 and none of the internists in town really want to take on anyone under 21."

"Is it still in the same building we went to?"

"Yes it is, although they updated and expanded it a few years back. Same phone numbers and pretty much the same policies. They have several nice doctors there. Although you might warn Sam that they are all ladies."

"Snort. Well if we could put up with Dr. Burnes examining us from head to toes, I am sure Sam can put up with one of the lady docs telling him to turn and cough. Well thanks, I will see you for dinner next week."

Mary called Valley Care and got Jenny and Sam appointments for late July. As she hung up the phone, her thoughts drifted back to her last two encounters as a patient of Dr. Burnes.