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  • Dandy, one of the Adams' newest editions, tries to show who's the boss. Dr. Michael Adams moved Dandy onto the side lawn north of the house after breaking a fence moments before.
  • Dr. Michael Adams looks over his 150 acre farm, in Benton, Ky., after morning feedings. The Adams family farm is the home to seven horses, a slew of cattle, dogs and cats.
  • Dr. Michael Adams picks up hay from a friend's mule farm in Murray to decorate his six wheel 4x4 Dodge Ram as a covered wagon. The Adams family is decorating the truck for annual Trunk or Treat night at Hardin Baptist Church.
  • Walking into the office at Primary Care Medical Center, Dr. Michael Adams throws on his jacket to start a 13-hour day.
  • Dr. Michael Adams takes a moment to admire a new tattoo before explaining the dangers of high blood pressure with a new patient.
  • Dr. Michael Adams examines Rob Erwin on the 4th floor of Murray Calloway County Hospital Thursday evening. Erwin's wife, Wanda, waits patiently in the corner.
  • Dr. Michael Adams takes a call from the hospital while during a 13-hour shift.
  • A resident at Spring Creek Health Care asks Dr. Michael Adams what made him want to be a doctor. As nurse assistant Britany McClure and Tonya McIntosh listen in, Adams explains watching the television show MASH sparked his interest in the medical field.
  • After a 13-hour day at his office making rounds, Dr. Michael Adams walks towards his truck at Spring Creek Health Care in Murray.

Mr. Ed meets Dr. Adams

Brooke Grace

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.