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Interview No. 830, Barbara Leigh Rees Dec 1993

Interview No. 830, Barbara Leigh Rees

Combined Interviews

Part of Health Care on the Border Project; childhood memories of accompanying father on hospital rounds and his office in Roberts-Banner Bldg; describes father's practice, his "no appointment" system and payment by Mexican patients in silver during WW II; parents' membership in El Paso County Medical Society; Medical Society acquisition of S.T. Turner home; father's work at the Baby Sanitarium in Cloudcroft, NM, and St. Anne'S Clinic; discusses growing up in Manhattan Heights.

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Interview No. 821, Henry Dodson Garrett M.D., Rebecca Garrett Nov 1993

Interview No. 821, Henry Dodson Garrett M.D., Rebecca Garrett

Combined Interviews

Part of the Health Care on the Border Project; Wm. Beaumont Army Hospital during WW II; relationship between civilian and military physicians; El Paso-County Hospital; treatment of tuberculosis ; Woman's Auxiliary of El Paso County Medical Society; acquisition of S.T. Turner home by Medical Society; prevention of polio and care of polio patients in El Paso and Hot Springs, N.M.; founding of El Paso County Historical Society and its publication, Password.

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Interview No. 822, Venice E. Neilsen Gibney Oct 1993

Interview No. 822, Venice E. Neilsen Gibney

Combined Interviews

Part of Health on the Border Project; experiences with U.S. Army Nurse Corps; assignments at Ft. Sam Houston, San Antonio, at Percy Jones Hospital, Battle Creek, Michigan, and at 350th MASH Unit at Wm. Beaumont Army Hospital; treatment of polio patients; closing of Hotel Dieu and Newark Maternity Hospital; discusses nursing profession.

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Interview No. 793, Arturo Tapia Feb 1993

Interview No. 793, Arturo Tapia

Combined Interviews

Discusses early life including trips into Hueco Mountains to gather mesquite an amole for firewood and soap; describes life in Ysleta in 1920s and 1930s; life as a teenager; celebrations of St. Anthony's Day (June 13); traces route of street car from Ysleta to El Paso and the route of old Highway 80; relates stories that the"old men" told when he was a child.

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Interview No. 820, María Elena Acevedo Flood Nov 1992

Interview No. 820, María Elena Acevedo Flood

Combined Interviews

Part of Health Care on the Border Project; early work experiences as medical transcriber, translator, and language instructor, health care in Mexico; grandfather's work as Public Health physician with U.S. government; construction of Diablo Hospital by Ray Peck, M.D.; history of Texas Tech Medical Center, development of medical school in Cd. Juarez, Universidad Autonoma de Cd. Juarez; Chamizal Foundation.

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Interview No. 827, Wayne L. Lorentzen, M.D. Nov 1991

Interview No. 827, Wayne L. Lorentzen, M.D.

Combined Interviews

Part of Health Care on the Border Project; family history including grandfather's participation in California Gold Rush; military stint in U.S. Navy during WW II; internship in Detroit; comments on segregation in hospitals; opening of first office in Gunning-Castile Bldg; discussion of pulmonary tuberculosis; changes in practice of medicine.

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Interview No. 826, Mrs. Anne Camp Johnson Nov 1991

Interview No. 826, Mrs. Anne Camp Johnson

Combined Interviews

Part of Health Care on the Border project; biographical information about Dr. and Mrs. S.T. Turner; attended El Paso School for Girls; describes Turner home; recalls childhood experiences in Turner home including Gen. John J. Pershing's visit.

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Interview No. 819, Arlin B. Cooper, M.D. Aug 1991

Interview No. 819, Arlin B. Cooper, M.D.

Combined Interviews

Part of Health Care on the Border Project; biographical data; medical school; father's friendship with H.L. Hunt, founder of Hunt Oil Co; experience in U.S. Army; trip with J. Frank Dobie to Yaqui area of Mexico; friendship with Carl Hertzog; lack of ethics training in current medical schools.

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Interview No. 828, Laurance N. Nickey, M.D. Aug 1991

Interview No. 828, Laurance N. Nickey, M.D.

Combined Interviews

Part of Health Care on the Border Project; recalls El Paso childhood and participation in El Paso's first Sun Carnival; WW II in El Paso including the internment of German rocket scientist, landing of German V-2 rocket in Juarez, crash of B-24 Liberator Bomber on Mt. Franklin; work as an orderly in Thomason Hospital's emergency room; distribution of SABIN Oral Sundaes; El Paso County Medical Society Foundation; public health problems and issues along U.S.-Mexico border; relationship of El Paso City-County Health District to Wm. Beaumont Army Hospital and Cd. Juarez.

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Interview No. 833, Maurice Spearman, M.D. Mar 1991

Interview No. 833, Maurice Spearman, M.D.

Combined Interviews

Part of Health Care on the Border Project; medical school; military duty with U.S. Navy; changes in El Paso's hospitals; experiences as editor of Southwestern Journal of Medicine; volunteer work with Southwestern Children's Home; founding El Paso Medical Center, comments on Roundtable meetings with Ed Pooley, editor of the El Paso Herald Post.

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Interview No. 825, Robert Homan Jr. M.D. Sep 1990

Interview No. 825, Robert Homan Jr. M.D.

Combined Interviews

Part of Health Care on the Border Project; reminisces on opening of University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston; construction of tuberculosis sanitorium by father and John C. Crimmon, D.D.S; improvement of surgical procedures during WW II; advances of anesthesiology,; advent of sulfa drugs, penicillin and other antibiotics; changes in medical practice; establishing Thomason General Hospital.

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Interview No. 817, Louis W. Breck, M.D. Sep 1990

Interview No. 817, Louis W. Breck, M.D.

Combined Interviews

Part of Health Care on the Border Project; biographical information; medical education and training as U.S. Army Orthopedist; internship at El Paso at El Paso's City- County Hospital; area physicians ; El Paso County Medical Society.

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Interview No. 831, Louise Schuessler, W.W. Schuessler Jul 1989

Interview No. 831, Louise Schuessler, W.W. Schuessler

Combined Interviews

Part of Health Care on the Border Project; biographical information; comments on discrimination against military personnel in El Paso; El Paso County Historical society; early days of medical practice; ranch near Sierra Blanca; El Paso's role in helping patients with respiratory diseases; are hospitals; Border Patrol Museum.

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Interview No. 816, Mrs. Maurine Basom May 1989

Interview No. 816, Mrs. Maurine Basom

Combined Interviews

Part of Health Care on the Border Project; biographical information; Woman's Auxiliary of El Paso County Medical Society; El Paso hospital in existence in early 1940s; husband's internship at El Paso City-County Hospitals; acquisition of S.T. Turner Home by Medical Society; husband's involvement in pioneering El Paso Orthopedic Surgical Group; Frank Goodwin, M.D, El Paso's first orthopedic surgeon; Medical Auxiliary collection of physician log books from 1869-1940s.

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Interview No. 818, Mary Smith Caufield, Llillian Mount, Anna K. Mitchell Apr 1989

Interview No. 818, Mary Smith Caufield, Llillian Mount, Anna K. Mitchell

Combined Interviews

Part of Health Care on the Border Project; biographical data; experiences in nursing school, private duty nursing; history of Masonic Hospital; volunteer work for Our Lady of Charity Sisters; St. Vincent's Clinic; St. Joseph Hospital; Newark Maternity Hospital; participation in president Lyndon B. Johnson's; Title One Health Care Program; polio epidemic and vaccinations; donation of S.T. Turner home to El Paso County Medical Society; sale of Hotel Dieu; demolition of Liberty Hall; relationship between nurses and physicians.

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Interview No. 832, Sister Tharsilla Schwietzer Apr 1989

Interview No. 832, Sister Tharsilla Schwietzer

Combined Interviews

Recalls experiences as nurse at St. Joseph's Sanitorium, tuberculosis health care facility in El Paso, Texas; demolition of St. Joseph's Hospital; sketches history of Order of Sisters of St. Joseph; arrival of Order to El Paso in 1927; discusses changes in Order; comments on segregation of patients in hospitals.

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Interview No. 824, Evelyn Foltz Slusser Holt Apr 1988

Interview No. 824, Evelyn Foltz Slusser Holt

Combined Interviews

Part of Health Care on the Border Project; training and work experience in obstetrics at El Paso Masonic Hospital; husband's work with Southern Pacific Railroad; polio and flu epidemics in El Paso; husband's house calls; Woman's Auxiliary of El Paso County Medical Society; closing of Masonic hospital.

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Interview No. 823, Frances Hatfield Apr 1988

Interview No. 823, Frances Hatfield

Combined Interviews

Part of Health Care on the Border Project; recalls husband's intership at El Paso City-County Hospital and opening private practice in Ysleta; economic conditions during the Depression; husband's military stint during WW II ; residency in Houston; polio epidemic; activities of Medical Auxiliary during WW II; Woman's Auxiliary of the Texas Medical Association; acquisition of Turner home by El Paso County Medical Society.

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Interview No. 427, E W. Rheinheimer Feb 1977

Interview No. 427, E W. Rheinheimer

Combined Interviews

El Paso Baby Sanitarium at Old Tin Mine on the east side of the Franklin Mountains in the 1920s; his medical practice in South El Paso; experiences training rum-runners during Prohibition; patients in Juarez; Stormsville; diseases prevalent in El Paso in the 1920s; delivering babies; veneral disease; changes in the medical profession. (Also included is a list of the El Paso County Medical Society, organized in 1898.)

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Interview No. 194, Drusilla Nixon Dec 1975

Interview No. 194, Drusilla Nixon

Combined Interviews

Biography; experiences of blacks before desegregation; the Mexican and Black communities in El Paso; El Paso compared to other parts of the United States; her husband's career and his civil rights suit; Lord Beresford and Lady Flo.

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Interview No. 188, Dr. Eugenio A. Aguilar, Jr. Sep 1975

Interview No. 188, Dr. Eugenio A. Aguilar, Jr.

Combined Interviews

Biography; the Depression, U.T. Austin; experiences in the infantry; views on the word "Chicano"; early Mexican American dentists in El Paso; political activities; effects of Ciudad Juarez dentistry on the profession in El Paso.

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Interview No. 124, E. W. Rheinheimer Apr 1974

Interview No. 124, E. W. Rheinheimer

Combined Interviews

El Paso History; Prohibition; the medical community in El Paso.

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