Before Pompano had a medical doctor who lived in town, most residents relied on Dr. Thomas Kennedy of Fort Lauderdale. Dr. Kennedy was called upon to attend to the sick and injured throughout what is today Broward County in the early years of the 20th century, often with considerable difficulty, as can be seen in his description of traveling to look in on Harry McNab in Pompano:

He was in bed for a couple of weeks. And in the meantime it had pitched into raining, and I had to ride horseback on account of high water. I often had to swim my horse fifty or sixty yards to get there, but I had a faithful pony and he seemed to enjoy the water.

“Thomas S. Kennedy: An Autobiography of a Country Doctor, Part Two”, in Broward Legacy, Summer/Fall 1983, p. 37