150 Years of Nevada Medicine and more (Second Edition)

ORGANIZATION: 150 YEARS OF NEVADA MEDICINE

The volume, number, and year of each issue of Greasewood Tablettes is at the end of the article, and the author is listed at the beginning. Initially only articles from Greasewood Tablettes were to be included in 150 Years of Nevada Medicine, but to be complete we were compelled to include additional information. Also, articles not relevant to Nevada were eliminated.

Accordingly this endeavor will be a collection of Greasewood Tablettes' articles grouped into eleven chapters: Medical Education, Medical Disciplines/Specialties, Hospitals, Frontier Military Medicine, Native American Medicine, Chinese Medicine, Diseases, The Hood Dynasty, 19th-Century Doctors, 20th-Century Doctors, and The Unusual.

The essays are unchanged from their original publication in Greasewood Tablettes except for three considerations. First, we deleted repeat information, although some repetition is necessary to maintain the integrity of the original essay. Second, the titles and some essays were edited to conform to a uniform design, but they still reflect the original content and subject matter. Third, new information is added to increase the scope and completeness of 150 YEARS OF NEVADA MEDICINE.

Dr. Anton P. Sohn graduated from Indiana University School of Medicine in 1961, interned at San Francisco City and County Hospital, and completed a residency in pathology in Tacoma, Washington, with one of the country's foremost forensic pathologist, Dr. Charles P. Larson. Captain Sohn served in the U.S. Army in Vietnam as Chief of Pathology of the Ninth Medical Laboratory in Saigon where he was awarded the Bronze Star for Meritorious Service Under Hostile Fire.After discharged from the U.S. Army, Dr. Sohn came to Reno in 1968 to pursue a career in pathology. At Washoe Medical Center (Renown Regional Medical Center) appointed director of the laboratory, founded the hospital's Pulmonary Function Laboratory, and served on its Board of Governors.Dr. Sohn is a strong supporter of organized medicine. In 1977, he was president of Washoe County Medical Society (wcms) and in 1984 president of the Nevada State Medical Association (nsma). It was during his active participation in nsma that he became interested in Nevada's medical history after hearing stories of the 'old days' by nsma leaders. Sohn received the Nevada Physician of the Year award in 1991, and he received the President's Award for Service to Medicine in 1998 and 2011.Dean Daugherty recruited Dr. Sohn, a member of Reno pathologists with twenty members, to be chairman of pathology at UNRSOM in 1984. (Doctors Sam Parks, Roger Ritzlin, and Sohn lead the department for twenty-five-years.) In the department Dr. Sohn founded the UNRSOM Cytogenetics Laboratory with Bill McKnight of Sierra Nevada Laboratories. He also founded the Great Basin History of Medicine Program. As part of the program, Doctors Owen Bolstad and Sohn started the UNRSOM oral history archives in the department of pathology. Several chapters in this book are the result of this endeavor. For example: The Great Carlin Canyon Train Wreck and Adventure in the High Sierra.Doctors Bolstad and Sohn founded Greasewood Tablettes, A quarterly history of medicine bulletin and Greasewood Press. The press has published fourteen books on the history of medicine. Dr. Sohn also was the Nevada Editor for the Western Journal of Medicine and a research associate at the Johns Hopkins Institute of the History of Medicine.The use of the name Greasewood in the history of medicine program is an interesting story. Dr. S.N. 'Nick' Landis, Reno's first oncologist, frequently stopped by Dr. Sohn's office at wmc to chat and sometimes consult on a patient.On one occasion Dr. Landis told Dr. Sohn about an Indian man referred to him by a Fallon Clinic doctor. The man had metastatic melanoma to the liver. Dr. Landis told the patient the cancer was incurable, and he had nothing to offer and told him, "Go back to Fallon, get your life in order, and see your medicine man." One year later the patient came back to thank Dr. Landis for referring him to the medicine man. After an examination and finding no evidence of tumor, Dr. Landis asked him about his treatment. He was told that the medicine man told him to daily drink tea made from the leaves of the Greasewood Bush (also known as the Creosote Bush). Further research revealed that for over twelve thousand years Great Basin Indigenous People have used all parts of greasewood for medicinal purposes. The upshot of this information resulted in a clinical study by the biochemistry department at UNSOM, and no anti-neoplastic (anti-cancer) properties were found in the plant to explain the tumor regression.After Dr. Sohn suggested the name Greasewood, Dr. Bolstad added the name Tablettes, French for tablets to give the quarterly bulletin sophistication.

Dr. Robert M. Daugherty has devoted his career to building programs in medical education. He retired in 2004 as Vice President for Health Sciences at the University of South Florida in Tampa. Before South Florida he served twenty-years as the Dean of the University of Nevada School of Medicine (UNRSOM) where he built statewide educational, research, and clinical enterprises. Dr. Daugherty was recruited to Nevada in 1981 after the school transitioned from a two-year to a four-year program. He recruited nationally renowned clinical and basic sciences chairs, developed a clinical campus in southern Nevada, managed hospital relations with public, private, and Veteran Administration Hospital affiliates, built strong rural outreach programs, and oversaw the development of statewide residency programs.After Dr. Daugherty retired from UNRSOM, the University of South Florida recruited him to become Dean of the College of Medicine and Vice President for Health Sciences, where he oversaw three colleges-Medicine, Nursing, and Public Health-as well as the university's relationships with its major affiliated hospitals.Well-known for his roles in shaping national issues relevant to medical education, Dr. Daugherty served as chairman of the Council of Deans of the Assoc. of Amer. Med. Colleges (aamc), where he spearheaded its leadership development program to prepare academicians to become deans. He was also on the aamc's Advisory Panel on the Mission and Organization of Medical Schools.While involved in the Amer. Med. Assoc. (AMA), Dr. Daugherty served three elected terms on the ama Council on Med. Education, which he chaired in 1998-1999. He served as an UNRSOM representative on the Liaison Committee on Med Education(lcme), which he chaired for two years, and served as the ama's representative to the board of the National Board of Medical Examiners (nbme). In 2002, he served on the Institute of Medicine's Committee on Introducing Behavioral and Social Sciences into Medical School Curricula.With faculty from Nevada and Florida, Dr. Daugherty was active in international efforts to set standards for the quality of medical education and to establish the Council of Rectors for the Central Asian Republics. Their work was funded by the American International Health Alliance through the U.S. Agency for International Development.Dr. Daugherty is a University of Kansas graduate, with an undergraduate major in chemistry, and an MD from its medical school in 1960. He was Associate Dean for Education at Indiana University SOM from 1978-81 and was responsible for medical student education, graduate medical education (residencies) and Continuing Medical Education (CME). He and his deceased wife, Sandra, were honored as the 2004 University of Kansas Medical School Alumni of the Year.