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He then served as a delegate to the AAFP Congress of Delegates and was elected to the AAFP Board of Directors in 1979. He subsequently served on the AAFP Foundation Board from 1982-1992. His fondest memories were providing patient care in private practice. He expressed concern about the hospitalist movement, which he felt removed family physicians from providing care for their patients in the hospital. \u003cbr\u003eLocation: Michigan \u003c/p\u003e (summary)"]}},{"label":{"en":["Rights Statement"]},"value":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eThis item is protected by U.S. copyright and related rights. It is being made available by the Center for the History of Family Medicine as its rights-holder for noncommercial use, including sharing and adapting the work. No permission is required for noncommercial use so long as attribution is provided. All other uses require permission from the Center for the History of Family Medicine.  Disclaimer:  The views presented in this broadcast are the speaker’s own and do not represent those of CHFM or the AAFP Foundation. The information presented is for general, educational, or entertainment purposes and should not be considered legal, health, financial, or other advice. \u003c/p\u003e"]}},{"label":{"en":["Date"]},"value":{"en":["2008-07-29 (created)"]}},{"label":{"en":["Type"]},"value":{"en":["Oral History"]}},{"label":{"en":["Agent"]},"value":{"en":["Sandy Panther (Interviewer)"]}},{"label":{"en":["Format"]},"value":{"en":["audio file"]}},{"label":{"en":["Keyword"]},"value":{"en":["family physician","family medicine","American Academy of Family Physicians"]}},{"label":{"en":["Subject"]},"value":{"en":["Douglass Haddock, MD (personal name)"]}},{"label":{"en":["Language"]},"value":{"en":["English (primary)"]}}],"summary":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eDr. Haddock was interviewed in 2008. He was born before the depression and served in the US Army at the end of WWII. He attended the University of Michigan Medical School, then entered private practice with an older GP in 1951.After building the practice to several physicians, he entered solo practice in 1969. In 1978 he helped establish a family medicine residency in Kalamazoo, MI, where he later became program director. He was active in the Michigan AFP, where he became president in 1969. He then served as a delegate to the AAFP Congress of Delegates and was elected to the AAFP Board of Directors in 1979. He subsequently served on the AAFP Foundation Board from 1982-1992. His fondest memories were providing patient care in private practice. He expressed concern about the hospitalist movement, which he felt removed family physicians from providing care for their patients in the hospital.\u0026nbsp;\u003cbr /\u003eLocation: Michigan\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e"]},"requiredStatement":{"label":{"en":["Attribution"]},"value":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eThis item is protected by U.S. copyright and related rights. It is being made available by the Center for the History of Family Medicine as its rights-holder for noncommercial use, including sharing and adapting the work. No permission is required for noncommercial use so long as attribution is provided. All other uses require permission from the Center for the History of Family Medicine. \u0026nbsp;Disclaimer: \u0026nbsp;The views presented in this broadcast are the speaker\u0026rsquo;s own and do not represent those of CHFM or the AAFP Foundation. 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Dr. Haddock, do I have your permission to audiotape this interview?\n\nYou certainly do.  \n\nThank you. Would you please give me sort of a historical background of you and your family – where you were born, your parent’s names, siblings and so forth?  \n\nWell, I was born in Cambridge, Maryland. My father tried to start a practice there shortly after fulfilling an internship in Baltimore, where he graduated from the University of Maryland Medical School. My father was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts; my mother was born in Lisbon Falls, Maine. My mother’s name was Jenny Moores. That’s M-O-O-R-E-S and my father, the same name as me, he was a Senior though I’ve never used the Junior of my name. He started practice there in Cambridge, didn’t take on well so he went back to Maine and he worked as a mill doctor in Calais or Caribou????.  Did that for a  year then decided he wanted to go into private practice. He saw an ad for a medical practice—uh, place—medical job placement agency in Chicago for a position at a clinic in Detroit, Michigan. And we moved there I believe in probably late 1926, and so I lived in Detroit for a few years there. I started kindergarten in Detroit, then my father was interested in some property at a lake adjacent to Detroit about twenty miles away. There’s a county called Oakland County which has about 400 lakes in it. So he decided to buy a lake lot and build a small cottage. Well, unfortunately, the Depression came. And that hit him hard, he still had a practice in Detroit but no one was paying him, so he gave that up pretty much as far as our living in Detroit, so we moved to the cottage out at the lake which had very primitive situation. We had to pump our own water, we had indoor plumbing, but we still flushed the john with water that was poured into the back of it. Who did the pumping? It was me. (Laughter)\n\nWe didn’t have electricity there so we had kerosene lamps and we heated the cottage by a potbellied stove in the middle of the living room. We slept on bunks and in the summer, and late spring and early fall I would try to sleep on the porch because I unfortunately had the upper bunk in the living room, where the heat was up going from the potbellied stove – it was about ninety degrees up by the ceiling. That was very uncomfortable at that time.\n\nSo I went to a one-room country school. I think we had about twenty students, one teacher and eight grades. It was about a one-mile walk. An interesting experience. I’ve never been sorry for it. And we did that for a while and finally my father gave up practice altogether in 1933 and he thought he would do locum tenens around the country, so he took my sister and I back to Maine to live with my father’s parents, which we did for two years. That was not the happiest time of my life because both my grandfather and my grandmother were a little bit stern and rigid. I don’t think I even had one hug during those two years. Finally in 1935, my dad had a job with Merck Company then – he was doing fairly well and he had us come back to Detroit then. And at that time I found out that my mother had left my dad. I thought when he said my mother’s gone I thought he meant that she had died –of course, I was a very upset young lad. But I found out quickly that she had left about three months before, so anyway we lived in Detroit for a while, may be three or four months and then finally the cottage that was at the lake that had been returned to the person that built it – my dad bought it from him again, and the fellow gave him full credit for everything he had paid before the Depression hit.\n\nSo we moved back to the lake. I went back to my one-room country school for several years and finally about eighth grade that school district consolidated with Walled Lake, so I was driven by school bus and I went to Walled Lake High School. After that, that’s where I graduated in a class of about I’d say eighty students. Let’s see, that was June of ’42 when I graduated. Then I spent the summer working in a defense plant trying to get a little money together for my college years.\n\nI started University of Michigan in the fall of 1942. And I could see the writing on the wall, that probably by sometime in the spring or the summer of 1943 that probably the draft was going to catch up to me, because I was a healthy young man. So I started looking around. I found out that one semester at Michigan wasn’t enough to get into an ASTP program to go to medical schools but there was a meteorology program put on by the Army Air Corps which was an eighteen-month educational endeavor. I applied to that, and I made it so I spent my first year – well, I spent one year at the University of Wisconsin from June of 1943 to June of ’44, in the Meteorology program and then there was another six-month program following that, but by that time they’d decided that they’d had enough meteorologists for two world wars! (Laughter)\n\nSo they said we had some choices to make, we could – OCS was closed, pilot training was closed, but they had room in the Infantry, Aerial Gunnery, and the top 25% in the class could go into Radar School. So I picked the Radar School, which was up in Clinton, Ontario, and there I as brushing shoulders with the RAF and the RCAF in the school, and we had about seven months there, and the rest of the war I spent as a radar mechanic. My only overseas time was that time in Ontario so you can’t really count that. I didn’t see any action, which didn’t upset me. Of course, we never had much say as where we were going to go during the war anyway. So anyway, I was in from January of ’43 to January of ’46, so I had three years in the service. And luckily, for the GI Bill, it gave me the means of getting back to school and finishing my education. And I was fortunate enough that about sixty-eight hours of credit was transferred back for that one year at the University of Wisconsin to the University of Michigan after the war, so that shortened some of my pre-medical education days. So, medical school at the University of Michigan, I graduated in June of ’51. Where do we go from here, Sandy?\n\nDid you do a general internship, then, or did you--?\n\nYeah, I did an internship at St. Mary’s Hospital up in Grand Rapids, Michigan. When I got back from the Army, about two weeks after I returned home, I met on a blind date the lady, Pat Harry, who was going to be my future wife who I married in June of 1947. She helped put me through school, but one of those things happened. We got her pregnant, so to speak, and we had a baby in August of 1950. So our last year of medical school and our year of internship, she was unable to work. And so things got very tight, needless to say as you could imagine.\n\nNow did you have a little boy or a little girl then?\n\nWe had a boy, Craig, in August of 1950, and then during my internship years, we had a little girl, Holly, in December of 1951. And our next child was born in March of ’53, and the last one was born in April of ’54, so we ended up with, when the fourth one was born, the first one was three and a half, so which was probably a little faster than we had intended, but anyway, it worked out fine and we’ve been happy for it since.\n\nAnd those two children’s sexes and names please?\n\nPardon?\n\nThose two children’s sexes and names?\n\nOkay, the last one was Clark. He was born in 1954 and Jeff was born in ’53.\n\nHow many grandchildren do you have now?\n\nI have nine grandchildren and I have three great-grandchildren and a fourth one on the way. \n\nMy goodness, you are blessed.\n\nI am. We are blessed. \n\nYes. When you finished your internship, then did you go into private practice?\n\nYes, I did. A doctor who had been in practice with my father – my father was a GP outside of Detroit, as I said. This fellow had been in the service over in the Pacific Theater as a physician. And he came back looking for a spot, and he joined my father for four years, and after four years of that he decided, he’d had enough of that he could stand, and he came over to Kalamazoo to start a practice, because his brother-in-law worked for the Upjohn Company, and said, here we are, in Portage Township with 8,000 people and a Portage plant, Portage/Upjohn plant, and not one doctor. So he built an office and he was there less than a year and he said, “Doug, I need help.” So Patty and I went down and we had a look at it and we talked to them and we said, “That sounds great,” and so in July of 1952, I joined him in practice.\n\nAnd how long – you practiced there until you retired, is that correct?\n\nNo, what I did, our group was two, and gradually became three, and then four, then five, and when it became five I decided – and they wanted to enlarge, become a larger size, and I said I didn’t want to. So I left the group in 1969 and started a solo practice, right in itself, which I did really part/full-time until ’78, and in ’78 I started working in the family practice residency program which I was instrumental in getting going in Kalamazoo, and then by ’53 I went full-time – I mean, excuse me, by 1983 I went full-time in the residency, and brought my private practice into it. And then I was in the educational field until my retirement which was in ’92. And, I worked about two afternoons a week for one of my graduates during – between ’93 and ’95, and then the hospital, one of the hospitals bought his practice out and that’s when I decided I would hang it up, totally.\n\nNow were you the first program director in Kalamazoo?\n\nNo, I was the second one. \n\nSecond one? And, how many residents did that program have?\n\nIt was a 6-6-6- program. \n\nSo you had eighteen through that time?\n\nYeah. \n\nAre there any memories, specific memories, educationally that you would like to discuss because obviously, that was in the instrumental time of family medicine.\n\nWell, back in – well of course, my political history goes back quite a ways, and so I got interested in the specialty of family practice early on because I was in some of the Congress of Delegates meetings where they were discussing the potential specialty, and California was threatening to leave the Academy, and all sorts of wonderful things were happening. But finally in ’69 the Board was established and so in the early 70s I started investigating the possibility of starting a residency in Kalamazoo. Each hospital had residency programs of its own. At that time, I went to visit Tom Hart in York, Pennsylvania who had one of the early residencies and spent a couple of days with him, I spent some time down in Charleston, the University of South Carolina residency program, and I went to a couple of the Program Directors meetings in Kansas City. And then I presented a proposal to both of the hospitals in Kalamazoo. And, unknown to me at the time, University – Michigan State University was attempting to bring the hospitals in Kalamazoo into the fold so they could have forty students here for their last two years. And, so they were creating a whole new educational complex called Southwestern Michigan Educational Corporation, which I didn’t know about, and then finally when they did bring that about, then they came to me and then we discussed it, and they sat around so long I finally had to sign another contract for my office space. And then they decided they were gonna do it so then I helped persuade Don Dewitt, who I think you know.\n\nVery well.\n\nAnd, then he came and became our original program director and he was there for about three months, he said “Doug I need help.” So that’s when I went in one-quarter time. Two years later I went in half-time, and two years after that I went into it full-time. You know I always enjoyed the educational field and it was fun to teach the residents and the students, and it’s something that I’ve never been sorry I did. And I think having the practice experience was very very helpful in doing it.\n\nYes, yes. You had a special – the students – do you see any difference or as you went through your career, did you see any difference in the mindset of those physicians who chose family practice?\n\nThe mindset? \n\nYes, in other words, did they start out with a very philosophical: “I’m – I want to save the world and then move onto something else” or were they – was family practice pretty – those people – those individuals who chose family practice – did they stay the same, personality-wise?\n\nYeah, I would say so. Occasionally we would have a residency graduate go slip over into emergency medicine and – but most of them stayed in family practice and luckily, a good share of them stayed in the area. But, I would say that they – they kept their personalities, they kept their ability to share a relationship with a patient that was important.\n\nGood. At what point did you become involved with the Michigan Academy?\n\nOh, in 19 – well, I joined the American Academy in ’56 and I think the first meeting I went to was probably in San Francisco in, I think it was ’59. Anyway, in 1960 several of the older family physicians in town suggested I get involved with the Michigan Academy of General Practice, so I went to the Michigan Academy meeting as a delegate in 1960. Nineteen sixty-one, I was elected to its Board of Directors, which I was on for three years. And of course I could only serve for three years in a row on it. So they put me in as Treasurer. I was elected President-Elect in ’68, President in ’69. I became a delegate to the American Academy in 1980, which I held that position until I was elected to the Board of Directors in 1979.\n\nDid anything – were there any – in that period of almost uh, ’79 – so that would be almost twenty years…\n\nI was a delegate to the Academy – I was an alternate delegate for one year, and I was a delegate for ten years. \n\nOkay, during that time, did anything major happen at the, in the Michigan Academy?\n\nI’m trying to thin. We changed the Executive Vice President from Clarkson Long to Rita…I can’t remember her name before she married Lee Feldkamp later after his wife died. And then later in – sometime in – I don’t know, ’76 or ‘7, another gal came on and that name is…I’ve lost it. I’m trying to think of other things that might have happened. Lee became a Director in the American Academy. I was waiting for him to get that job done, and he went for Vice President of that which he lost in ’78. And that’s why I went up for the Board of Directors in 1979.\n\nAnd you went to the Board in ‘7- the national board, in ’79?\n\nYeah.\n\nAnd were elected, I assume?\n\nPardon?\n\nAnd were elected, and you were elected, I assume. In ’79?\n\nYeah, right. \n\nAnd, tell us a little bit about the Academy, and your service there, on the Board.\n\nLet’s see, went on the Board in the fall of ’79. We had our first Board meeting, I think it was in Maui in December. I was – I – my first position was head of the Research Committee which was a brand new committee at that time, in the Academy. I was elected to the member of the – to be an alternate del – alternate to the RRC at the same time. I was elected to CMSS (?) at the same time. And I was put on the Family Practice Working Party in 1980 which was – and then my second…then I was head of the Education Commission next. Now, I suppose we should go back to the committees and commissions I’ve been on?\n\nRight.\n\nIn 1970, I was appointed to the Scientific Assembly Committee for three years, which probably was my favorite, I suppose because you always had a job that you had to have completed at the end of each year.\n\nRight.\n\n[Unintelligible]…which was interesting. My next was the Scientific, excuse me, the Public Health and Scientific Affairs Commission. Then I went from there to the Committee on Continuing Medical Education which I was on until I was elected to the Board.\n\nOkay then, then you did the Commission on Education in your second year?\n\nOn the Board?\n\nYes.\n\nYeah, I was – yeah, I was head of that, yeah. \n\nWere you ever an official or part of the AMA or the American Board?\n\nNo, I was never an official – I say that – several of the committees were American Board.\n\nOkay, we’ll get into that in a minute. So, then in your third year, did you elect to run?\n\nYeah, [unintelligible]...a debate whether I was going to run for President or run for Vice President. I started off as President initially, and my good buddy Bob Shackelford was going to go. And I really didn’t want to spoil his chances, so I said, I’ll go for Vice President, and then I’ll go for President the next year.\n\nOkay.\n\nI was Chairman of the Board my last year on the Academy.\n\nOkay.\n\nYeah. \n\nThen did you immediately come over to the Foundation Board?\n\nI was put on the Foundation Board in…I was trying to think what year that was…probably ’82. Yeah, because I was on the Foundation Board from 1982 to 1992.\n\nSo you were there ten years which encompassed your – I’m trying to think the terms then – the terms were four years, weren’t they at that point?\n\nYou know, I cannot remember. \n\nI’m trying to remember cause I joined at that time too, so you were there…\n\nI think it was, I don’t know. \n\nYou were there during critical times…\n\nYeah, I certainly was.\n\n…for the Foundation, so do you want to explain a little bit of what you went through as a board member during that  timeframe?\n\nI’m trying to recall some of this. Some of the things had to do with the division of money obtained by the Foundation for their work from the various donations they’re given by pharmaceutical companies, other companies, or by members of the Academy. The divisions made percentage-wise between the national and the state. That was our problem, and sometimes I think the division was not to our advantage but to the advantage of the states themselves. Another thing we go into was the Huffington Library, which was a reference resource for the members of the AAFP, and which was a very good idea, but probably should have been funded by the Academy itself rather than the Foundation and it became – uh, I would say a noose around our necks, and financially it really inhibited some of the other work we were doing. After that we came to a financial [unintelligible], and finally things had to be done, and got a new director finally and her name was Sandy Panther, right?\n\nWell, that was 1997 but…in 1988 is….\n\nLet me go back, you’re right. [Unintelligible] A little bit back in my mind. Uh, what happened is then the Executive Director of the Academy sort of came in and was a co-director of the Foundation along with Executive [Vice] President of the Family Health Foundation, so we became more under the aegis of the Academy. The name was changed from the…\n\nFamily Health Foundation.\n\n…Family Health Foundation of American to the AAFP Foundation, which I think was a very good move. Anyway it put us on a better financial footing…\n\nGo ahead, please.\n\nAs the years went by [speech becomes unintelligible and tape becomes garbled]…\n\nThis is Side Two, Tape One of the audiotape interview with Douglass Haddock, MD by Sandy Panther. Dr. Haddock, you were explaining 1988 and the transition of the EVP to a co-EVP with the Academy.\n\nRight. That was a very unsettled time for us at that time. Gary was the Executive Vice President of the Foundation at that time. And, there were times when sometimes his ideas were a little more grandiose than we could – and a little less practical than they should have been and I think probably the switch to have the Executive Vice President of the Academy come in for a time to help was a good idea. I’m trying to think what else to say for it.\n\nWell, you were – when did you become president of the Acad – of the Foundation?\n\nI think probably I’d get off in March of ’92 so it must have been two years before that. \n\nOkay, so ’90 so you hit a time when we were really doing quite well again.\n\nYes, we were, yeah. \n\nWere there any memories during that time that were particularly eventful for you?\n\nNo, not really. I was very happy that the Huffington Library was off our backs. There was a more – equitable division of monies between the state foundations and the national foundation at that time, making us a more solvent organization. And that’s just about it as far as I can remember – you know, going back in my memory bank here.\n\nJust to sort of look back over your career, what position, because you were in private practice, you were a residency director, what position did you enjoy most and why?\n\nWhat position did I enjoy most? In my educational career or in my Academy career?\n\nWell, no, mainly in your private career, what did you prefer, the educational part of it over private practice?\n\nNo, no, I don’t think I did. I think there’s nothing more satisfying than private, than the private practice. But, it was just another step in my life.\n\nWhat are – what, in all of your career, was that did you feel you accomplished the most?\n\nWell, I feel that I provided excellent care for the patients I took care of for many many many years, and I have a feeling of gratitude in the sense that I was able to bring a family practice residency to the Kalamazoo area, and my last job after that, our two hospitals in town had rather antiquated cancer facilities and they had to bring them up to date and they decided to join forces – which they really didn’t want to do but they thought that a positive something to make the people of the town happy, so they tried it for two and a half years in upper management committees to get it going and they got absolutely nowhere, so then the Upjohn Company told them they better find some neutral director to come in and handle the situation, so they approached me in early ’90 – oh gosh, I think in ’91, to take over the job and bring the Cancer Center into an existence and I said at my age I didn’t need those kind of problems, and then the president of the Upjohn Company called me and he had me come out and I sat down with him for about three hours and I finally said, “Okay I’ll do it.” So I’d had that job for one year and I got the thing off the ground, I got a permanent director hired, and to me that was very satisfying because it’s the single building downtown which takes care of southwestern Michigan for both medical and radiologic treatment of neoplastic diseases. Luckily it was there when my daughter and my wife needed it. So that was satisfying to me.   \n\nAbsolutely. What do you think perhaps was your toughest decision during your career?\n\nProbably leaving the group that I was in. I was in a group of five and I went out on my own and yet that was the happiest decision I ever made because I never enjoyed practice more than I did when I was in a solo situation. But I also set up a trading situation with four other family physicians so I was on call the same amount I was when I was with the groups, so it all worked out well, but it was nice to be able to see my patients, how much time I could spend with them, and how I could hire, fire, or buy and do everything the way I wanted to do.\n\nIf you could start all over again, would you do anything differently?\n\nYou know, probably not. I just, you know, I wish that we had all the tools that we have now at the time I started practice. All the drugs, all the surgical procedures, all the things that we can do to help people. Course, you know, every field advances but back in 1952 when I started, medicine was a whole lot different than it is now.\n\nAbsolutely.\n\nBut it was a challenge all during my career to continue, have continuing medical education. I’d always go away for one or two weeks a year to a university and spend time just trying to catch up. And I think that’s another thing that the Academy has really helped family practice with, is giving us an educational base which was very very necessary.\n\nOne thing you had mentioned, you were on several committees with the American Board of Family Medicine.\n\nYou know, they were actually – one committee was to set up the questions that would be asked and we would validate whether they, the questions were apropos. And, I did that for several years and I found that to be an interesting thing to do. But I was never an officer or a national member of the Board other than being a diplomate of the Board.\n\nWere you involved in any community activities in Kalamazoo?\n\nI was on the Cancer Society things, and on several committees of the Academy of Medicine here, but that’s all.\n\nAre there people that you worked really closely with that had an influence on your life?\n\nOh dear, in the American Academy, I would say Jack Stelmach had a very special place for me, because he was President at the time that I came on the Board and that influenced me a great deal. Earlier on, I think I believe that Edward Kowalewski, or Ko-va-loo-skee, however you want to pronounce it, was a mentor and also someone that I looked up to, and I wanted to follow in his footsteps too. But I always wanted to be active in the political arena on the national scene.\n\nYes. I’m going to go back to the residency program. Can you give me the names of the, the name of the residency program so we can have that for the record?\n\nRight now, it’s Family Practice Residency for Kalamazoo Center – MSU/Kalamazoo Center for Medical Studies. At that, when it was, at its inception it was Southwestern Michigan Area Health Education Center.\n\nAnd what was the base of the patients in that center? Economically?\n\nOkay, we were – of course, we had rotations in both of the hospitals, and the base of the patients was, some were from my practice that I’d brought in, and then the others were all from the community itself.\n\nSo basically, would you call that a middle-class community?\n\nYes, really. \n\nSo, and with Kalamazoo being small, I would assume you didn’t have a lot of the urban issues?\n\nDidn’t have a lot of what? \n\nThe urban issues that are faced in a poor community.\n\nNot as much as – you know, it’s a town of 80,000, and Portage is another town which adjoins it which is another 50,000. We have certain urban issues, yes, I mean we have like, racial issues, we have issues of some people in – without getting proper care so we had our share of Medicaid patients, which I think every family practice residency program has.\n\nWas it financed by Michigan State?\n\nYeah, it was. The financing came out of the, out of both hospitals, I suppose from their Medicare distribution.\n\nHow do you feel family medicine has changed over the years?\n\nWell, there has been one – I think the educational [unintelligible] is very good but what has happened to family practice is what happened in England, is the doctors stopped going to the hospitals, in the larger towns, and that happened here. Very few of the family physicians that follow their patients to the hospitals. The patients are transferred to the hospitalist and this is something that I never taught, I never agreed with this philosophy because I thought that it did a disservice to the patients not to have their family physician in on their care when they get to a hospital situation. And, the other thing that’s happened is because of the cost of the liability insurance, fewer of the family physicians are doing OB work which I hated to see occur. And I don’t know in the future whether any family physicians except those in very small communities, will be doing OB at all. Which I think is a, which is a very unfortunate for both the doctors and the families.\n\nI do too. I think the face of family medicine’s changing from that perspective. Well, as we—\n\nI hate to see it just be an office practice. You know, I think there should be, and there aren’t, house calls being made like there used to be. Of course, we made too many unnecessary house calls probably in the 50s and early 60s, but the house calls should not be eliminated. You not, shouldn’t be able to say, “Well, if you’re that sick you should take the ambulance and go to the hospital or emergency room.” That’s not the way to handle the situations.\n\nRight. Well, as we begin to wrap up on this, Dr. Haddock, are there any other areas that you would like to discuss that we haven’t touched upon?\n\nWell, I’ve had sixty-one years of a happy marriage, except unfortunately in recent years my wife has Alzheimer’s Disease and is in an Alzheimer’s home, and that is a terrible disease as you well know because there’s no way you can talk to the patient about the problem that they have and how to plan for the future, and that changes life considerably when you have to live alone and your wife is in a separate spot. Even though my wife is close, I spend every afternoon with her, it’s still not what we were looking forward to as we entered our retirement years. We thought we were going to do travel and all those good things together and maybe go south in the winter, but unfortunately that has not come to pass.  \n\nWell, and – was Janice Klos also there when you were involved or did she come after?\n\nDid who? \n\nJanice Klos.\n\nJanice Klos came afterwards. \n\nOkay.\n\nUh, but I knew Jan quite a while of course, before, you know, for her time with the AAFP, but she’s done a marvelous job with the Michigan Academy and we’re very fortunate to have her.\n\nWell, I would like to thank you so much for being a part of the interview process. I think historically, especially your early career, will have a bearing on people who come in to listen. We will send you one tape, so that you will have it for your children.\n\nOkay, I have only one suggestion. \n\nYes.\n\nI know this is a relatively new process, but hopefully the process will take place closer to the time of people getting off of the AAFP or off of the Foundation Board, because some of the things start to slip away as the years go by.\n\nYes, and I would agree and that’s why I’m trying to help them get caught up, but…\n\nI think that’s great of you, Sandy, and I hope you keep up the work. \n\nWell thank you.\n\nYou’re welcome.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://centerforthehistoryoffamilymedicine.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2195/collection_resources/153019/file/281647#t=0.0,1767.50572"}]}]},{"id":"https://centerforthehistoryoffamilymedicine.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2195/collection_resources/153019/file/281646","type":"Canvas","label":{"en":["Media File 2 of 2 - Haddock_Douglass_08_b.wav"]},"duration":1038.77553,"width":640,"height":360,"thumbnail":[{"id":"https://d9jk7wjtjpu5g.cloudfront.net/public/images/audio-default.png","type":"Image","format":"image/png"}],"items":[{"id":"https://centerforthehistoryoffamilymedicine.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2195/collection_resources/153019/file/281646/content/1","type":"AnnotationPage","items":[{"id":"https://centerforthehistoryoffamilymedicine.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2195/collection_resources/153019/file/281646/content/2/annotation/1","type":"Annotation","motivation":"painting","body":{"id":"https://aviary-p-centerforthehistoryoffamilymedicine.s3.wasabisys.com/collection_resource_files/resource_files/000/281/646/original/Haddock_Douglass_08_b.wav?1752081326","type":"Audio","format":"audio/wav","duration":1038.77553,"width":640,"height":360},"target":"https://centerforthehistoryoffamilymedicine.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2195/collection_resources/153019/file/281646","metadata":[]}]}],"annotations":[]}]}