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Show FORM OF BEQUEST I hereby give, devise and bequeath (here state the amount of your legacy) $ .. .. . ......... . . . to the Corporation of the Episcopal Church in Utah, a corporation created and existing under t he laws of the State of Utah, for benefit of St. Christopher's Mission to the Navajo, Bluff, Utah 84512. MISSION PORTRAITS-DOCTOR FINDLEY It's an ill wind, they say, that blows nobody any good, and the ill health which fo rced David Presley Findley, M.D. to give up his private practice in Omaha, Nebraska in 1956 resulted in St. Christopher's Mission acquiring the services of one of the most highly-rated obstetricians and gynecologists in the country. The son of a famous father, Dr. Palmer Findley, the first trained gynecologist west of Chicago, grandson of a real oldtime "saddleback" doctor in western Iowa, David Findley was born on September 20, 1905 in Chicago, but calls Omaha his home town as his family moved there when he was 9 months old. Never in doubt as to his vocation in life, he took h is medical degree a t Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, in 1930. There followed one year of general internship at University Hospital, Ann Arbor, Mich. and a series of residencies in obstetrics and gynecology in Women's Hospital and Bellevue Hospital, New York City and Philadelphia Lying-In Hospital. He then spent a year as Assistant in Pathology at McGill University, Montreal and in 1936 started his own private practice in Omaha, where, as Associate Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology, he taught at the University of Nebraska College of Medicine for 19 year. In 1939 he married Lenore Hanson, an R.N., by whom he had two daughters, now married, and in 1940 he was Board Certified as a Specialist in his chosen field. While in Omaha, he was a Member of the American Medical Association, the Nebraska Medical Association, the Central Association of Obstetrics and Gynecology, the American Association of Obstetrics and Gynecology and the Pan-American Medical Association and a Licentiate of Obstetrics and Gynecology. When forced to retire from private practice , Dr. Findley came to St. Christopher's Mission for 6 months to convalesce and take charge of the little eight-bed clinic, leaving to work with the Montana State Board of Health for 4 '12 years. But, " I couldn't stand a desk job," and he returned to the Mission on a permanent basis. As resident doctor, he was in a position to discuss Navajo health problems with t he Utah State Board of Health and to implement any programs which were initiated. Case findings and a rigorous follow-up of TB contacts have resulted in the decrease of the disease, which has now dropped from first to sixth place as a cause of death. Dr. Findley also notes that there has been a very slow but gradual improvement in hygienic living conditions and nutrition, and better health generally, due to improved hospital facilities and the acceptance by the Navajo of "white man's medicine." Much remains to be done, however, in battling ignorance and superstition and the Navajo's tragic tendency to wait too long before seeking medical help. Looking to the future, Dr. Findley hopes that it may be possible to inaugurate a complete health plan, including prenatal clinics, health education conferences for adults, well-child conferences, crippled children clinics, dental care and also care of eyes. " It is my firm conviction," he says, "that with adequate funds and personnel satisfactory arrangements can be made with the Public Health Service and State Health Departments to carry out such a program." In the meantime, Doctor continues to wage war, with such facilities as he has at his disposal, on pneumonia, influenza, gastro-enteritis with marked dehydration (the # 2 baby-kill er), TB, congenital abnormalities, prematurities, and accidents of all kinds. And he copes patiently with the Mission staff's aches and pains and sniffles. Dr. Findley u'ith patient Sa int Christopher's Mission to t he Navajo Bluff. Utah 845 12 A Mission of the EPISCOPAL CHURCH |