When Russell Dohner was a boy, he had a terrifying bout of seizures.
“When I came out of them,” he tells us, “there would always be [our physician] Dr. Hamilton. I decided I wanted to be like him.”
After medical school, he hung out a shingle in the next county over. His fee: $2.
That was in 1955. And while times have changed, Dr. Dohner hasn”t.
He still sees patients seven days a week out of the same office, keeps handwritten records with the help of his longtime nurse, Florence Bottorff, 88, and has been charging patients $5 a visit since the “70s.
“That”s the way I”ve always done it,” says the gentlemanly bachelor. “There are quite a few people who come to see me because they can”t afford anybody else. I can help.”
For that, a town is grateful. “Right now, I”m not working and I don”t have insurance,” says Mildred Ortiz, 50, who has high blood pressure. “Dr. Dohner works for his patients, and for love.”
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