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The Public’s Health with Dr. Sam Taggart, MD

24 June 2024 @ 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm CDT

The Public’s Health with Dr. Sam Taggart, MD

On June 24th, Dr. Sam Taggart will give a presentation to the Heritage Seekers of Central Arkansas entitled: The Public’s Health: Two Steps Forward, One Step Back: Two hundred years of health and disease in Arkansas. This lecture will look at the evolving history of Arkansas through the prism of health and disease. In the presentation he will discuss the various problems faced by Arkansans over the last two centuries. Beginning with malaria, yellow fever, smallpox and cholera in the 19th century and progressing to, COVID, AIDS, Drugs Addiction and Obesity. We will look at the illnesses faced, the tools they had to deal with them and how the people responded. Please join us.

Sam Taggart is a family doctor, raised in the White River Delta in Augusta, Arkansas. After medical school at UAMS, he completed a Family Practice Residency. He retired in 2013 as the senior partner and founder of Family Practice Associates of Benton. In 2012 he wrote a book describing a narrative history of health and disease I Arkansas over the last 200 years, The Public’s Health.

In 2015, he created the Arkansas Physician’s Oral History Project. As a part of this project, he went around the state interviewing country physicians to create a video record of their lives and the practice of medicine in rural Arkansas for the last 75 yrs. In June of 2021 he published Country Doctors of Arkansas, as one of the products of that study. In April 2023, he published For Every Family, A Family Doctor a narrative history of the modern family medicine movement in Arkansas since 1947.

He and his wife, Dr. Annette Enderlin are presently working on a book called Against the Odds: Arkansas Women in Medicine before 1972.

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