Helen Spendlove Presentation

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Title Helen Spendlove Presentation
Creator Spendlove, Helen
Publisher Utah Historical Society
Date 1986
Access Rights Utah Historical Society
Date Digital 2024-05-02
Spatial Coverage City of Vernal, Uintah, Utah, United States https://www.geonames.org/7174628/city-of-vernal.html
Subject Civilian Conservation Corps (U.S.); Diphtheria antitoxin; Doctor-patient relationships; Emergency medical personnel; Health insurance; Historical societies; Hospitals; Medical doctors; Memories; Personal narratives; Radiology; Surgical instruments and apparatus; Uintah County (Utah); Vernal (Utah)
Description Presentation by Helen Spendlove about Vernal doctors to the Uintah County Historical Society. Topics include: Reading medical journals; Assisting her husband, Dr. Ray Spenlove, in making house calls; The history of doctors and hospitals in the Uintah Basin; Progression from the use of a portable x-ray machine to modern radiology; Progression from doctor's bag and house calls to EMTs, Paramedics, and ambulances; Progression from payments in household goods to health insurance; Progression from planning family vacations around OB patient due dates to having a rotation of on-call doctors; Change from scrubbing and sterilizing surgical instruments to disposable instrument use; Change from general practice doctors and family appointments to specialized care and individual appointments and the loss of close doctor/patient relationships that goes with the change; The first Uintah Basin doctor arriving in 1883 and practicing medicine until he was nearly 102 years old; Different doctors who came to Uintah Basin and how very few stayed because of the distance, poor road conditions, insufficient income, and lack of hospital; A diphtheria epidemic and the arrival of a young doctor from Denver with an antitoxin; The first female doctor, Dr. Maude Garrett O'Donnell; Doctors that came with the CCC Camp; People's memories about different doctors who cared for them; and tributes that Dr. Ray Spenlove wrote about fellow doctors.
Collection Number and Name Mss B 1637 Uintah County (Utah) Oral Histories Collection, 1974-2002
Type Text
Genre oral histories (literary works)
Format application/pdf
Extent 14 leaves
Language eng
Rights
Source Mss B 1637 Uintah County (Utah) Oral Histories Collection, 1974-2002
Scanning Technician Michelle Gollehon
Metadata Cataloger Amy Green Larsen
ARK ark:/87278/s6j488kd
Setname dha_uhsoh
ID 2535952
Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6j488kd
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