Presbyterian Hospital (Albuquerque, N.M.)

Scope and Contents This interview, conducted by Dr. David B. Post, focuses on the history of Women's and Children's Hospital of Albuquerque. The interviewees, Edward F. and Josephine Doherty, were respectively an administrator and a nurse at the hospital during its last decade of existence 1946-1955. Among the subjects discussed are the medical staff of the hospital, its nursing service, the physical facilities and equipment available at the hospital, and others.

Scope and Contents This interview surveys the life and career of Dr. Harry D. Ellis (1921-1997), a longtime pathologist of Santa Fe and Albuquerque, New Mexico. One of the earliest board-certified pathologists to practice in the state, Dr. Ellis set up his private practice and laboratory in Santa Fe in 1954 and practiced there and throughout northern New Mexico until 1982. In that year, he shifted his practice to Albuquerque, while establishing The Reference Lab, Inc., the largest private pathology laboratory in...

Scope and Contents This interview with Dr. P.G. Cornish III (1929-1996), a retired general surgeon of Albuquerque, New Mexico, focuses on his father and grandfather, both also surgeons who practiced in Albuquerque. Dr. Cornish, Sr. practiced in Albuquerque from the 1890s until his death in 1932, and Dr. Cornish, Jr. from 1920 until his death in the 1950s.