This story reminds me of All Creatures Big and Small. It relates how a brand new medical doctor found himself a job and it was fun to follow him as he learnt to deal with small town patients.
As all good stories possesses, some love interest is included. There are also interesting patients in that town. The most "outstanding" one being a stubborn old man who would not bow to dealing with a corrupt politician who also happened to be a building contractor. Once his roof was taken off, the mean contractor wanted to over charge him. He flatly refused to negotiate. Out of many options, he chose to resign his city job and live in his car and survived on selling vegetables and scrap iron. This humble old man happened to be a Ph.D. holder who used to work in an international company.
As junior doctor helps with the boss' work load, the boss became creative in solving quite a few people's problems at one swell step. With his not very ethical method, the stubborn old man got his roof repaired for free. The old man would be able to marry his sweetheart after many years of waiting. On top of that, a not-exactly hard-working man sold his batch of rocking ducks and recovered his capital so that he, his wife and baby could afford to immigrate to USA. Besides this family's new lease of life, another couple obtained enough money to get married so that the poor pregnant girl need not deliver as an unwed mom and give up the baby for adoption.
Like many other sweet stories, this ended with the junior doctor getting together with his own sweetheart after some misunderstanding.
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