Milton Floersheim, Jr. oral history collection

Collection

Identifier: HHC 132

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

This interview with Dr. Milton Floersheim, Jr., (1919-2000), a family practitioner who set up his private practice in Roy, New Mexico in 1946, then moved to Raton 18 months later, sheds light on both rural practice on the plains of northeastern New Mexico and on medicine and the medical community in Raton. (At the time of the interview, Dr. Floersheim had been in practice in Raton for 35 years.) Among the subjects discussed are the "old-timey" doctors of the 1920s and 1930s in Roy and Clayton, New Mexico; the nature and limits of rural practice in the 1930s and 1940s; the physicians of Raton in the 1940s through the 1970s; the advent of sulfa drugs and penicillin; mining camp and traditional medicine in the area; hospital competition in Raton; and other topics.

Dates

1983 December 1

Creator

Spidle, Jake W., 1941- (Person)

Conditions Governing Use

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Biographical / Historical

Dr. Milton Floersheim, Jr. (1919-2000) was a family practitioner who set up his private practice in Roy, New Mexico in 1946, then moved to Raton 18 months later. Born in Trinidad, Colorado, Floersheim graduated from high school in Roy, New Mexico and completed his undergraduate education at the University of New Mexico in 1940. He graduated from the St. Louis University School of Medicine in 1943. From 1944-1946, Floersheim served in the U.S. Navy Medical Corps - primarily in the South Pacific. He practiced family medicine in Roy and Raton, New Mexico.