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Carroll Yesteryears: gut strength and medical training in the 19th century

Carroll Yesteryears: gut strength and medical training in the 19th century

This journal has a long history of publishing “Carroll’s Yesteryears” columns. Much of today’s column about the medical education of local doctors in the 19th century appeared in 1991, while Joe Getty, then director of the Carroll County Historical Society, and Theodore Woodward prepared a book that was eventually published. under the title “Carroll County …

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Dr. Paul F. Vietz, OB/GYN of Carroll County, who teamed up with a colleague to be the first in the United States to perform a minimally invasive hysterectomy, dies

Dr. Paul F. Vietz, OB/GYN of Carroll County, who teamed up with a colleague to be the first in the United States to perform a minimally invasive hysterectomy, dies

Dr. Paul F. Vietz, a Carroll County obstetrician-gynecologist who, along with colleague Dr. T. Samuel Ahn, was the first physician in the nation to perform hysterectomy surgery that removed the uterus without major surgical incisions, died of a blood disorder on October 23 at his home in Westminster. He was 91 years old. “This surgical …

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