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Interview with Wilhelm F. Rosenblatt, M.D
No full textThis interview with Dr. Wilhelm F. Rosenblatt (1913-2004) of Corrales, New Mexico, surveys his life and career. The interview establishes a general chronology of his particularly interesting and eventful life, but focuses its attention on his quarter century service as a physician in New Mexico. Dr. Rosenblatt, an internist specializing in pulmonary disease, tuberculosis in particular, arrived in New Mexico in 1960 to work at the Fort Stanton Tuberculosis Sanatorium. Over the ensuing twenty-five years, until his semi-retirement in 1985, he was centrally involved in the campaign against tuberculosis and chronic disease in general within New Mexico. He was a staff physician and administrator at the central offices in Santa Fe of the New Mexico Department of Public Health. The interview discusses the general campaign against tuberculosis in New Mexico through the 60's 70's and Dr. Rosenblatt's role in it
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Interview with Fred H. Hanold, M.D.
No full textThis interview with Dr. Fred H. Hanold (1915-2006), an internist of Albuquerque, N.M., surveys his life and career as a New Mexico physician. Arriving in Albuquerque in 1950, Dr. Hanold quickly became one of the major figures of the Albuquerque medical community and practiced thirty years before his retirement in 1980. Among the subjects discussed in this interview are Dr. Hanold's personal and private backgrounds; his medical training in New York City and his World War II service; his evaluation of the Albuquerque medical community at the time of his arrival in 1950, including specific discussion of the major medical figures in the town and their reaction to specialty trained newcomers; medical facilities in the town, with special emphasis on its hospitals; the Santa Fe Railroad Hospital (now Memorial Hospital) and its place within the medical community; the decision to build Bernalillo County-Indian Hospital and the establishment of internship and residency programs within the city's hospitals; relationships between the solo practitioners and the Lovelace Clinic; the establishment of the University of New Mexico School of Medicine and its impact on the physicians and the caliber of practice within the city and state; continuing education; and much else
Interview with William A. Sterling. Jr., M.D.
No full textThis interview surveys the career of Dr. William A. Sterling (1936- ), a transplant surgeon of Albuqerque, New Mexico. Educated and trained at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, the Mayo clinic, and the Medical College of Virginia, Dr. Sterling came to the University of New Mexico School of Medicine in 1975. In that year he joined the school's Department of Surgery and established the first Division of Transplant Surgery within the department. Specializing in kidney transplantation, organ procurement and preservation, and vascular access, Dr. Sterling played a pivotal role in establishing transplant surgery in New Mexico. He retired after two decades of service here in 1994. In addition to personal and professional background information, this interview contains extensive information on the process and problems of creating the Division of Transplant Surgery at UNM-SOM
Interview with David B. Post, M.D.
No full textThis interview with Dr. David B. Post (1923-1993) of Albuquerque, New Mexico, surveys his life and medical career. A board certified, Mayo Clinic-trained pediatrician, Dr. Post came to New Mexico in 1952. After a year in Albuquerque at its Lovelace Clinic, Dr. Post spent the period 1953 to 1958 in private practice in Los Alamos. Returning to Albuquerque in 1958, he pursued his private practice continuously until his retirement in 1989. Among the many subjects discussed in this interview are the interviewee's personal and professional backgrounds; the structure, governance, and conditions of work at the Lovelace Clinic of the 1950's; the medical community, facilities, and problems of Los Alamos in the 1950's; the major figures of New Mexico's pediatrics community over the span of his practice; the fundamental changes within the medical profession through the 1970's and 80's, including extensive discussion of the loss of physician independence; the development and importance of the UNM School of Medicine; and many others
Interview with S. Robert Stubbs, M.D.
No full textThis interview with Dr. S. Robert Stubbs (1928- ), a family practice and emergency medicine physician of Alamogordo, New Mexico, surveys his 30+ years of medical practice in New Mexico. Arriving in Alamogordo in 1957, Dr. Stubbs built and served a family practice for twenty years, then shifted his focus to contract emergency medicine practice. In this interview he discusses his personal and professional backgrounds, then comments on medicine and medical practice in Alamogordo over the thirty years of his involvement with it. Among the subjects discussed are the growth and development of the Alamogordo medical community; the local hospital and other medical facilities of the area; referral and consultation patterns; the impact on the region of the creation and development of the UNM School of Medicine; and others
Interview with Harold M. Mortimer, M.D.
No full textThis interview surveys the life and career of Dr. Harold Mortimer (1901-1984). a long time general practitioner of Las Vegas, New Mexico. A native of Illinois, Dr. Mortimer first came to New Mexico in 1931 to recover from a mild case of tuberculosis. After a brief period in Albuquerque, he set up practice in Las Vegas and practiced uninterruptedly there for the subsequent 44 years, retiring in 1975. Among the subjects discussed in the interview are Dr. Mortimer's personal and professional backgrounds; the old-time physicians of Las Vegas; the nature of his practice there, especially in the 30s and 40s; conditions at the New Mexico State Hospital in Las Vegas; traditional practitioners, especially parteras; and many others
Interview with V. Scott Johnson, M.D
No full textIn this interview with V. Scott Johnson, M.D. (1901-1990) of Clovis, New Mexico (Curry County), a family physician who practiced in the Clovis, New Mexico/Farwell, Texas area for more than 50 years, the focus is on "pioneer" practice of the 1930's around Clovis and Farwell. Dr. Johnson tells many stories, providing a feel for the realities of general practice at that time. He also provides information and anecdotes about the physicians of that area from the 1930's through the 1950's, especially Dr. Hal Miller, dean of the eastern New Mexico medical corps for many years. The interview also affords interesting details regarding Dr. Johnson's own medical education and early practice, particularly about the economics of Depression era medical practic
Interview with William R. Hardy, M.D.
No full textThis interview with Dr. William R. Hardy (1929- ) of Albuquerque, New Mexico, deals predominantly with Dr. Hardy's reflections on the early years of the UNM School of Medicine. One of the pioneer faculty members of the institution, Dr. Hardy discusses the prominent personalities of the school's early years; its efforts to create a new medical school curriculum; relations between the school and the private practice community in Albuquerque; the role of the Veterans' Administration Hospital and staff in the early years of the school; and much els
Interview with Lucien G. Rice, Jr., M.D.
No full textThis interview surveys the life and career of Dr. Lucien G. "Red" Rice, Jr. (1909-1987), a general medicine and surgery practitioner of Albuquerque, New Mexico. Son of a prominent Albuquerque physician, Dr. Rice practiced more than three decades in his native city. Among the subjects discussed in this interview are Dr. Rice's physician/father, Dr. Lucien G. Rice, Sr.; Women's and Children's Hospital, the Albuquerque hospital built by the senior Rice and operated by him and his son; prominent figures in the Albuquerque medical community; Dr. Rice, Jr.'s World War II service; the split within the Albuquerque community between the Lovelace Clinic and the "downtown docs"; the birth of the University of New Mexico School of Medicine; and much else
Interview with Clifford Ellis Molholm, M.D
No full textThis interview surveys the life and career of Dr. Clifford Molholm (1907-1996), a family medicine practitioner who spent 36 years in New Mexico. Coming to the state first as a member of the Indian Health Service in 1939, Dr. Molholm subsequently practiced in Grants (6 years) and in Albuquerque (23 years). Among the subjects discussed are Dr. Molholm's personal and professional backgrounds; his Indian Service practice; small-town medicine in Grants; his activity in the New Mexico Medical society; and many others
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