Chapter 9: Big Enough to Stay Small
medical staff, or those who were admitted and worked at the hospital. The number did not include the courtesy staff or the consulting staff from the University. The largest hospital in Albuquerque and in the state, Presbyterian had all of the surgical specialties, essentially, except for cardiovascular surgery. Barr recalled, “The internists we had were basically generalists. This was really just at the beginning of the subspecialization of internal medicine into pulmonary, cardiology, nephrology and endocrinology, etc., so some of our general internists had a focus in one of those subspecialties. For example, there were two in cardiology at the time, but they were not full-fledged cardiologists.”
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Above: Presbyterian Hospital medical
staff presidents in the 1970s: (top row, left to right) Jim Hutchinson, MD; Bud Hodgin, MD; Donald Wolfel, MD; Steven Feagler, MD; (bottom row. left to right) Andrew Horvath, MD; Donald Rogers, MD; and Clark Haskins, MD Presbyterian Healthcare Services Photoarchive
circa 1970s
Barr worked closely with the hospital’s surgeons and physician leaders, including Jim Hutchinson, Bud Hodgin, Donald Wolfel, Steven Feagler, Andrew Horvath, Paul Cochran, Donald Rodgers, Bruce Lovett, and Clark Haskins. At the time, there were no perinatologists and neonatologists. Those specialties were just emerging in medical centers in large teaching
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