By Elwood L. Schmidt, MD
The Doctor’s Black Bag
Take a trip through medical school, internship, and government service with the Hopi and Navajo in Arizona and with the Paiute, Shoshone, and Washoe in Nevada. Private practices in Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and Nevada provide illuminating anecdotes for everyday medicine in the mid to latter twentieth century, while new medical advances were being introduced. Read More
About The Author
Elwood L. Schmidt, MD
Elwood L Schmidt, MD premed studies at Texas A&M, graduated U. of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston 1956, interned White Cross Hospital, Columbus, Ohio, served two years in USPHS, Division of Indian Health in Keams Canyon, AZ serving Hopi and Navajo, and Schurz, NV serving Paiute, Shoshone, and Washoe. He was in private practice in Slaton, TX, Jal NM, Yuma, AZ, and locum tenens in multiple Nevada towns.
Engaging, sometimes-poignant, and occasionally acerbic stories from a longtime physician.
He offers varied accounts of illnesses, emergencies, and routine encounters – many positive, but others fraught with some danger or mystery…
– self-publishing review
Additional Reading
Elwood’s Books
The Doctor’s Black Bag
Take a trip through medical school, internship, and government service with the Hopi and Navajo in Arizona and with the Paiute, Shoshone, and Washoe in Nevada. Private practices in Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and Nevada provide illuminating anecdotes for everyday medicine in the mid to latter twentieth century, while new medical advances were being introduced.
Nevada EMS
From the mid-1950s through the end of the last century, I witnessed a dramatic change in the level of care and service patients received prior to arriving at the hospital. The changes in this pre-Hospital or Emergency Medical Services care was often developed by volunteers, in small towns, and with very limited resources. How did this improvement come about? How did all these places of small population improve so much? It was the search for answers to questions that gave rise to this book and is told through the voices of the people who were there at the times these changes occurred, in towns small and cities large.
My Writing Blog
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Download Nevada EMS
My first book Nevada EMS - A History of Emergency Medical Services in Nevada is now available as a free downloadable PDF file. Get your copy here. The file is about 159MB, so please be patient as it...
Demics – En, Epi, and Pan
(Originally published by Nevada Humanities, www.nevadahumanities.org, on July 12, 2021.) Each evening as I sit at the kitchen table my view is of the Virginia Range. For 26 years I have watched the...
An Earthquake Baby
The recent spate of earthquakes experienced in Northern Nevada reminded me of my first Nevada earthquake in 1959. I was the doctor on call at the USPHS Indian Hospital in Schurz, NV. My housing was...
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