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Mitchell, George Trice was born on January 20, 1914 in Marshall, Illinois, United States. Son of Roscoe Addison and Alma (Trice) Mitchell.
( Dr. George T. Mitchell of Marshall, Illinois, shares wi...)
Dr. George T. Mitchell of Marshall, Illinois, shares with humor and compassion stories and reflections about his medical practice of fifty years. Having grown up in Marshall, Dr. Mitchell writes of his early experiences in midwestern America: basketball rivalries, school-boy pranks, and the traditions passed down through a family of doctors. Dr. Mitchell tells of his brief detour to obtain a degree in mechanical engineering, his decision to pursue a career in medicine, and his medical school experiences at the George Washington School of Medicine before the days of antibiotics and sophisticated medical technology. He vividly describes his subsequent service in World War II as a young surgeon at a military hospital helping injured soldiers resume normal lives while enduring the frustrations and occasional horrors of military life. After the war, Dr. Mitchell joined his father’s practice in Marshall, where, he observes, he was among sixteen physicians in a rural county with a population of less than twenty thousand people. Within twenty-five years, the number of doctors had dropped to only four. In this memoir Dr. Mitchell conveys his unwillingness to just sit by and watch the health needs of his community increase while medical and other services decline. He, instead, became a community activist, representing rural concerns to the state medical society, organizing the first emergency medical technician teams in the county, masterminding the planning of a regional medical center, campaigning successfully for improved highway safety, and spurring the extension of reliable telephone service throughout his area. As Dr. Mitchell recounts the house calls, farm accidents, emergency surgeries, and family counseling that comprised the life of this country doctor, he offers the keen insights of a clinician trained to look beyond what others only see.
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Mitchell, George Trice was born on January 20, 1914 in Marshall, Illinois, United States. Son of Roscoe Addison and Alma (Trice) Mitchell.
Bachelor of Science, Purdue University, 1935. Doctor of Medicine, George Washington University, 1940.
Intern, Methodist Hospital, Indianapolis, 1940-1941;
general practice medicine,, Marshall, since 1946. Member courtesy staff Union and Regional Hospitals, Terre Haute, Indiana. Clinical associate School Basic Medicine, University of Illinois.
Member recruitment and retention committee University of Illinois College Medicine, Rockford. Chairman, Board Of Directors 1st National Bank, Marshall.
( Dr. George T. Mitchell of Marshall, Illinois, shares wi...)
Member advisory council premedicine Eastern Illinois University, 1965-1969. Alternate delegate Republican Convention, 1968, delegate, 1972. Trustee Lakeland Junior College, 1978-1992.
Lieutenant colonel United States Army Air Force, 1941-1945. Fellow American Academy Family Physicians (Family Physician of Year 1993). Member American Medical Association, Illinois Medical Society (Second vice president 1980-1981), Clark County Medical Society (president), Aesculapian Society of Wabash Valley (president 1965), National Rural Health Association (Practitioner of Year 19951999 Distinguished Service award), Illinois Rural Health Association (board directors), Clark County History Society (president 1968-1970), Masons (32 degree), Shriners.
Married Mildred Aletha Miller, June 21, 1941. Children: Linda Sue, Mary Kathryn.