AIMS Journal

Vol 20 ¥ No 2 ¥ Summer 1998

Cover
Editorial
From the President
Of Medicine Men and the White Man's Medicine
LLUSM Physicians at MVH
Historical Notes on MV
Dr. Ashton: Captain of the Ship
Interview: Dr. Casebolt & Dr. and Mrs. Hartman
American Mission Outpost
Monument Valley Reflections
Letters
AIMS Life Memberships
Openings for Physicians/Dentists

EDITORIAL

Don Roth, Editor

This edition of the AIMS JOURNAL focuses on a Seventh-day Adventist medical institution that for many years made a dramatic impact on the Navajo Native American tribes of Monument Valley, Utah.

We are highlighting the history of Monument Valley Hospital because we feel its story should be shared, especially for the many readers of this journal who live outside of the United States. This is the story of a mission hospital in America.

Unfortunately, the Monument Valley Hospital is no longer in operation--it has gone full circle. Opening to fill a need for medical care for the region's Navajo population, the hospital later fell victim to changing times and circumstances in the valley.

Numerous graduates of the Loma Linda University School of Medicine have served at MVH, and you will read several of their stories in this issue.

You will also enjoy the reminiscences of a longtime friend of many here on the Loma Linda University campus, the late Carrol S. Small, MD. The MVH organizational flowchart and a list of LLUSM physicians who served there will offer insights into the hospital's history and the SDA Church's mission outreach to Native Americans. The Adventist International Medical Society (AIMS) and the editorial staff of the JOURNAL gratefully acknowledge and thank the Alumni Association, School of Medicine of Loma Linda University and their Editorial Advisory Council for permission to reprint material published in the May Ð June 1998 Alumni JOURNAL, which featured the LLU School of Medicine's involvement with Monument Valley Hospital.

The JOURNAL is grateful too for the in-depth editorial research done for this special issue by Alumni JOURNAL Editor Henry K. Yeo, MD, and Managing Editor Dennis E. Park. The AIMS Editorial Advisory Council has a number of special issues planned for the future. One will celebrate the 20th Anniversary of the organization we represent, AIMS.
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Monument Valley Hospital Organizational Chart

General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists
  North American Division
    Pacific Union
      Conference of SDAs
        Nevada-Utah Conference of SDAs
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Adventist Health System-West -- Monument Valley Hospital -- LLU Schools of Medicine and Dentistry

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From the President . . .

G. Gordon Hadley, MD,
AIMS President

Greetings from China where my wife and I have been working at the Sir Run Run Shaw Hospital in Hangzhou, China, a major outreach program of Loma Linda University and Loma Linda University Medical Center.

This edition of the AIMS JOURNAL salutes the work in Monument Valley, Utah, a work in stark contrast to the situation in which we find ourselves here in China. Whereas the Sir Run Run Shaw Hospital is in an intensely populated area of China and has no shortage of patients, the Monument Valley Hospital served a sparse population in a region straddling four states: Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, and Utah, and often suffered from low patient census.

During the time I worked at the LLU School of Medicine, many medical students and residents traveled to Monument Valley to assist in this needy mission project within the boundaries of the North American Division. I never had the privilege of visiting or working at Monument Valley Hospital, though I recognized the need and supported the program of sending medical students to assist in and learn from this medical mission work.

We salute the LLUSM gradutates who dedicated their time and energy to serve the medical needs of the Navajo tribes of Monument Valley.

We honor especially the hospital's founder, Lloyed Mason, MD, who closed a thriving practice in Bishop, California, to manage the original Monument Valley Mission Clinic. We also recognize the dozens of other dedicated physicians, nurses and medical personnel who worked in the hospital.

We regret, of course, that it was necessary to close down the institution, but in this issue we offer our thanks and appreciation for the men and women who gave (and those who still give) so much of themselves for the benefit of the Native American population in America's own mission field.

Take time to read each article in this special edition of the JOURNAL. Of particular note is "Of Medicine Men and the White Man's Medicine," Dennis Park's insightful look into the history of Monument Valley Hospital.

Enjoy!
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Letters

Dear Colleagues:

I am glad to inform you about the activities of our chapter in Spain. We have been organized since 1990. We have a yearly meeting, together with nurses and allied health professionals. We are active in local churches as well as in mission field. Our group was present in Rwanda during their crisis in 1994, and some of us have been working in Africa and collaborating with ADRA in South America.

We also have SDA health students in public universities who are interested in practicing their healthcare skills while serving in the mission field. They are eager to become involved in Students for International Mission Service (SIMS).

Yours sincerely,

-Dr. Ferran Sabate, President Asociacion Medica Adventista Espanola

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Goals of the Adventist International Medical Society

Goals of the Society are in harmony with those of the Seventh-day Adventist Church and include the following specific objectives:

1. To provide an association of SDA physicians and other health professionals throughout the world for purposes of fellowship, scientific exchange, and mutual encouragement in Christian service.

2. To foster the training and continuing education of health professionals throughout the world.

3. To provide an efficient means of giving for mission projects.

4. To promote health evangelism throughout the world.

5. To produce an official Journal.

6. To establish a close working relationship with, and to act as a resource agency to, the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists Department of Health and Temperance.

7. To provide visiting lectureships at Seventh-day Adventist and other selected medical institutions.

These amended AIMS Objectives were voted at the annual board meeting, Tuesday, March 11, 1986

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OPENINGS FOR PHYSICIANS/DENTISTS

From the Secretariat of the General Conference of SDA

Anesthesiologist Scheer Memorial Hospital, Nepal (or Nurse Anesthetist)
SDA Medical Clinic, Ile-Ife, Nigeria

Clinical Pathologist Antillean Adventist Hospital, Curacao

Dentist Community Hospital of SDA, Trinidad
Lusaka Adventist Clinic, Zambia (under construction)
SDA Dental Clinic, Madagascar
Palau SDA Dental Clinic, Micronesia

Dermatologist SDA Medical Center, Okinawa (Japanese Registration Required)
General Practice Adventist Health Center, Lilongwe, Malawi (3-month Relief)
Andrews Memorial Hospital, Jamaica (or Surgeon)
Heri Hospital, Tanzania (1-year Relief)
Koza Adventist Hospital, Cameroon
Lusaka Adventist Clinic, Zambia (under construction)
Palau SDA Clinic, Micronesia
Internal Medicine Blantyre Adventist Hospital, Malawi (5-month Relief)
Community Hospital of SDA, Trinidad (or Cardiologist)
SDA Medical Clinic, Ile-Ife, Nigeria

Medical Director Mugonero Hospital, Rwanda

OB/GYN Blantyre Adventist Hospital, Malawi

Ophthalmologist Penang Adventist Hospital, Malaysia

Orthopaedic Surgeon Masanga Leprosy Hospital, Sierrra Leone, West Indies
Penang Adventist Hospital, Malaysia
Scheer Memorial Hospital, Nepal
SDA Cooper Hospital, Liberia
SDA Medical Clinic, Ile-Ife, Nigeria

Pediatrician Scheer Memorial Hospital, Nepal

Surgeon Bere Health Center, Chad
Malamulo Adventist Hospital, Malawi
SDA Medical Clinic, Ile-Ife, Nigeria

Urologist SDA Medical Clinic, Ile-Ife, Nigeria

For more information, please call:
Elaine A. Robinson
(301) 680-6666

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The AIMS Journal is published by the Adventist International Medical Society, an organization of Seventh-day Adventist physicians/health professionals, and friends, dedicated to the promotion of Adventist international health efforts. Bulk rate postage paid at Loma Linda, California. © Copyright October 1998, by the Adventist International Medical Society, Loma Linda, CA 92354 USA. Current circulation: 3,400

Executive OfficersBR> President: G. Gordon Hadley, MD
President-elect: Eloy Schulz, MD
Secretary: George Wiesseman, MD
Treasurer/Membership: William Wagner, MD
Project Director: Dunbar Smith, MD
Continuing Education: Richard Hart, MD
Webmaster: Rodney Willard, MD
Past President: Larry L. Thomas, MD
Executive Director: Dennis E. Park

PublicationBR> Editor: Don Roth
Associate Editor: Dennis E. Park
Contributing Editor: William Wagner, MD
Managing Editor: Kara S. Watkins

Contributing Editors
Jorge Pamplona-Rogers, MD, Spain
Zildomar Deucher, MD, Brazil
Nephtali Valles Castillo, MD, Mexico
Patrick Guenin, MD, France
Ronald Noltze, MD, Germany
Sam Daniyan, MD, Nigeria
Ricardo G. Salamante, Dr. HSc, MPH, & Pastor Bien V. Tejano, Philippines
Milca Schmidt, Venezuela
Adrian Bocaneanu, Romania
R.J. Butler, Australia
Dr. Edmil D. Marinov, Bulgaria
Dr. Jairo Casta–eda, Colombia
Bernardo Meza, MD, Honduras
Graciela Quispe, Argentina
Ivan Kasminin, MD, Russia
Antonio Solares, MD, Guatemala

AIMS operates in cooperation with the Alumni Association, School of Medicine of Loma Linda University, Loma Linda, CA 92354 USA

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AIMS DONORS

JOURNAL Friends
Jarl Nielsen, MD
Nicholas Reiber, MD
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Mission Fund
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Jorge Mazlumin, MD
Hugo Riffel, MD
Eloy Schulz, MD Donald Vargas, MD

Scholarship Fund
Ira Bailie, MD
Juan Jose Sanchez, MD

Unrestricted
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