1 audiocassette (60 min.), 1 transcript (12 pages), correspondence, 1 black and white photoprint (10 x 13 cm, 4 x 5 in.), 1989 June 30

File — Folder: 1245

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

From the Collection: This interview with Dr. John H. Dettweiler (1920-2002), of Albuquerque, New Mexico, surveys his life and career as a New Mexico physician. An internist, Dr. Dettweiler came to Albuquerque in 1949 and practiced continuously for forty years before his retirement in 1989. Among the subjects discussed in this interview are Dr. Dettweiler's personal and professional backgrounds; the Albuquerque medical community and medical facilities of the late 1940s and 1950s; the split within the Albuquerque community between the Lovelace Clinic and the "downtown docs"; the birth of the University of New Mexico School of Medicine; the impact of medical societies within the profession; and others.