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All the United States Georgia Athens Carter-Coile Country Doctors Museum

Carter-Coile Country Doctors Museum

This tiny museum honors the rural country doctor experience.

Athens, Georgia

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This small museum is located inside the original building of the town doctor from Winterville, Georgia. Opened as a museum in 1972, it offers visitors a chance to see how far we've come with medicine and to honor those who had to handle everything in a day. There's a day in the life example where the local doctor might have taken care of someone's tooth, then delivered a baby, and then amputated a limb—all in a day's work.

Outside, a small botanical garden offers insights into how doctors and chemists made medications when they couldn't make a quick trip to the local pharmacy.

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Carter-Coile Country Doctors Museum
125 N Church St
Athens, Georgia, 30601
United States
33.967188, -83.279212
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