2 audiocassettes (120 min.), 1 transcript (26 pages), correspondence, news clippings, Medicine in the American Colonies [book] by Dr. John B. Beckwith with a foreword by Dr. Charles F. Fishback, 1985 June 6, other

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Scope and Contents

From the Collection: This interview with Dr. Charles F. Fishback (1907-1990) of Albuquerque, N.M., focuses on his 30 years' practice of pediatrics in that city. A Mayo-trained pediatrician, Dr. Fishback came to the Lovelace Clinic in 1941 and retired in 1972. Among the subjects discussed in this interview are Dr. Fishback's personal and professional backgrounds; his summary and evaluation of the Albuquerque medical community of the 1940s and 1950s, especially its pediatricians; the main personalities and operation of the Lovelace Clinic in those years; relationships between the Clinic and the other physicians of the town; and others.