Title:
When winter came : a country doctor's journey to fight the flu pandemic of 1918 / Mary Beth Sartor Obermeyer.
ISBN:
9781945564154
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Publication Information:
Rochester, MN : Mayo Clinic Press, [2023]
©2023
Physical Description:
352 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), genealogical tables ; 23 cm
Contents:
The Lockbox: Memories and Mysteries -- CHAPTER 1: Setting Forth -- CHAPTER 2: "...if you make that one well..." -- CHAPTER 3: Procession of the Faithful and a Mother's Funeral -- CHAPTER 4: Healing, Learning and Leaving -- CHAPTER 5: Aboard a Tramp Steamer -- CHAPTER 6: First Impressions and the World's Fair -- CHAPTER 7: Matters of the Heart: Medical School and Romance -- CHAPTER 8: Marriage and Career: Fulfillment and Frustration -- CHAPTER 9: A New Home -- CHAPTER 10: Calling Dr. Sartor -- CHAPTER 11: Family Life -- CHAPTER 12: The Great War Comes Home to Small-Town America -- CHAPTER 13: Time to Move? -- CHAPTER 14: "My Titonka" -- CHAPTER 15: "My 'Flu Life'" -- CHAPTER 16: "Here was the long-expected 'real Flu'" -- CHAPTER 17: "Somehow it spread like wildfire on wild prairie land." -- CHAPTER 18: Pierre's Family: Pushed to the Limit -- CHAPTER 19: "Doing nicely" -- CHAPTER 20: A Song for Pierre -- The Lockbox a Continuing Journey.
Summary:
Mary Beth Sartor Obermeyer grew up listening to her grandfather, Dr. Pierre Sartor, describing his remarkable life, including his collaboration with Mayo Clinic, which spanned several decades. Long after Dr. Sartor died, Beth found a handwritten memoir of his experiences caring for patients during the influenza pandemic of 1918 nestled among other family documents in a lockbox. Thus began the journey. Beth used her skills as a journalist to discover how Dr. Sartor saved lives amid a global crisis . . . how he won the love of his patients throughout his career . . .and how he earned the respect of his colleagues, who named him Iowa's General Practitioner of the Year. Beth tells the story of her grandfather -- a compassionate, skilled physician who does the best of things in the worst of times -- with warmth and wisdom.
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OCLC Number:
on1350539946
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