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Author:

Sartor Obermeyer, Mary Beth.

Title:

When Winter Came: A country doctor's journey to fight the flu pandemic of 1918.

Publisher:

Mayo Clinic Press,

Copyright Date:

2023

Description:

352 pages: 23 cm 23 cm

Subject:

Physicians--Iowa.
Influenza Epidemic, 1918-1919.
Influenza--History--20th century.
Influenza Epidemic, 1918-1919--Iowa.
Sartor, Pierre

Contents:

Intro -- Welcome -- Dr. Sartor and Mayo Clinic -- Collaboration and Inspiration -- Pierre Sartor: A Timeline -- INTRODUCTION: The Lockbox: Memories and Mysteries -- CHAPTER 1: Setting Forth -- CHAPTER 2: "...if you make that one well..." -- CHAPTER 3: Procession of the Faithful and a Mother's Funeral -- CHAPTER 4: Healing, Learning and Leaving -- CHAPTER 5: Aboard a Tramp Steamer -- CHAPTER 6: First Impressions and the World's Fair -- CHAPTER 7: Matters of the Heart: Medical School and Romance -- CHAPTER 8: Marriage and Career: Fulfillment and Frustration
CHAPTER 9: A New Home -- CHAPTER 10: Calling Dr. Sartor -- CHAPTER 11: Family Life -- CHAPTER 12:1The Great War Comes Home to Small-Town America -- CHAPTER 13: Time to Move? -- CHAPTER 14: "My Titonka" -- CHAPTER 15: "My 'Flu Life'" -- CHAPTER 16: "Here was the long-expected 'real Flu'" -- CHAPTER 17: "Somehow it spread like wildfire on wild prairie land." -- CHAPTER 18: Pierre's Family: Pushed to the Limit -- CHAPTER 19: "Doing nicely" -- CHAPTER 20: A Song for Pierre -- Conclusion: The Lockbox a Continuing Journey -- About the Author -- Acknowledgements -- Family Trees -- Endnotes -- Principal Works Cited.

Summary:

"Mary Beth Sartor Obermeyer grew up listening to her grandfather, Dr. Pierre Sartor, describing his remarkable life, including his collaboration with Mayo Clinic, which spanned several decades. Long after Dr. Sartor dies, Beth found a handwritten memoir of his experiences caring for patients during the influenza pandemic of 1918 nestled among other family documents in a lockbox. Thus began the journey. Beth used her skills as a journalist to discover how Dr. Sartor saved lives amid a global crisis... how he won the love of his patients throughtout his career... and how he earned the respect of his colleagues, who named him Iowa's General Practitioner of the Year. Beth tells the story of her grandfather - a compassionate, skilled physician who does the best of things in the worst of times - with warmth and wisdom. Medicine has changed greatly since her grandfather practiced on the Midwestern prairie, but however winter may come to each of our lives, we all want a doctor like Pierre Sartor." from the back cover.

ISBN:

1945564156
9781945564154

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1350539946

Locations:

GBPF771 -- Ankeny Kirkendall Public Library (Ankeny)

LHPD057 -- Audubon Public Library (Audubon) — 614.5 OBE

NCPC953 -- Buffalo Center Public Library (Buffalo Center)

KSPG296 -- Burlington Public Library (Burlington)

DBPE173 -- Clear Lake Public Library (Clear Lake)

TDPH826 -- Davenport Public Library (Davenport)

BAPH771 -- Des Moines Public Library (Des Moines)

SIPD314 -- James Kennedy Public Library (Dyersville)

GHPD771 -- Grimes Public Library (Grimes)

YCPD572 -- Hiawatha Public Library (Hiawatha)

ZSPC475 -- Stubbs Memorial Library (Holstein)

IBAX173 -- North Iowa Area Community College Library (Mason City)

FPPC224 -- Murphy Helwig Library (Monona)

GPPC641 -- Gutekunst Public Library (State Center)

MTPB743 -- West Bend Public Library (West Bend)

YGPC162 -- West Branch Public Library (West Branch)