White fences weave throughout a 150-acre horse farm off Kentucky 299 in Benton.
Horses, cows, bulls, dogs and cats join the farm home where Dr. Michael Adams and his family live.
“This farm is like therapy to me,” Michael said looking out over his land, coffee cup in hand. “Being a doctor is having to make 500 quick decisions a day.”
Besides managing the farm with help from his wife, Marsha, and daughter, Sarah, 9, Michael is a full-time family physician.
He starts his day at the barn. In October, Dandy was the newest member of his equine family, so Michael spent the early-morning hours taming her temper with walking routines.
After cleaning up, Michael joked with Marsha that it was time to go to the day job that’s supports his cowboy habit.
Michael spent the afternoon meeting with patients at Primary Care Medical Center on 12th Street. After the office visits ended in the early evening, he checked on his patients at Murray Calloway County Hospital on Poplar Street.
One last stop took Michael down the road to Spring Creek Health Care, a nursing home, for routine checkups.
Near the end of an exhausting 13-hour day on call, Michael was ready for home. But he held a list of the last few last patients he needed to meet with that night.
“Dear Lord, please help me get through this list,” Michael said.
Soon after, he headed home to tend to the farm.
