For his groundbreaking 1948 LIFE magazine photo essay, Country Doctor seen here, in its entirety, followed by several unpublished photographs from the shoot photographer W. Eugene Smith spent 23 days in Kremmling, Colo., chronicling the day-to-day challenges faced by an indefatigable general practitioner named Dr. Ernest Ceriani. Six decades later, Smiths images from those three weeks remain as fresh as they were the moment he took them, and as revelatory as they surely felt to millions of LIFEs readers as they encountered Dr.