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Interview No. 831, Louise Schuessler, W.W. Schuessler
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.
Interview No. 816, Mrs. Maurine Basom
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.
Interview No. 818, Mary Smith Caufield, Llillian Mount, Anna K. Mitchell
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.
Interview No. 832, Sister Tharsilla Schwietzer
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.