{"product_id":"9781491774540","title":"As It Was ... But Not Now: A Memoir","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 1923 in Andalusia, Alabama, twenty-odd miles north of the Florida line, a physician was born. It’s a place deep in the piney woods that was an area of sand beds, sand roads, and sandspurs. In \u003ci\u003eAs It Was … But Not Now\u003c\/i\u003e, Dr. Joseph Merrill tells his story that began in that little town more than ninety years ago.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eIn this memoir, Merrill recalls a boy educated in the public schools of the rural South who was transformed into a physician. NIH and Baylor College of Medicine provided him an environment to study the vagaries of academic medicine in America’s changing health care industry.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eFilled with anecdotes and stories from his youth to his college days in medical school to his career as a physician, Merrill offers a look at the life of a doctor and the ebb and flow of the practice of medicine.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"iUniverse, Incorporated","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47126302359792,"sku":"9781491774540","price":3.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781491774540_p0.jpg?v=1763660297","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781491774540","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}