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submitted photoOr. Charlotte Ames has had many reasons to celebrate during her 50 years as a physician, most of them in the Xenia area.Ames sees vast changes in medicinethrough her decades as a physicianBy ELIZABETH STUDEBAKERGAZETTE feature writerHow times have changed.When Charlotte Ames, M.D. graduated from Case Western Reserve Medical School in Cleveland in 1947. she was one of three women in the class. The following year there were six. the next year 20. and the 1999 class was half and halt!In her 50 years as a physician, progress made in the field of medicine is almost unbelievable, Ames said, remarking that things about to come will help mankindimmensely.Technology, which of course is said to be responsible for today's advances and marvels, has been part of medical science longer than we realize. As early as the 1960s,street from Greene Memorial Hospital. They practiced together until his retirement, and she continued at the same location until 1995.Then, when she became associated with the Fairfield Physicians in Beavercreek, it was the first time she ever worked for someone else. Although she bad only agreed to stay there three months, she actually staved five.Ip® , 'IpT. Bit was rewarding to watch the young doctors in practice there. she saidAfter Ames graduated in 1947 from medical school in Cleveland, she practiced at the city’s Universi ty Hospital Clinic for five years and taught clinical pathology and general internal medicine. She graduated from Wooster College in herSee AMES, Page 2Ajm i • % ~ jflilfMMViHAre lheyNowAmes, out of curiosity, attended her first course on computers — Computers in Technology — at New York University.Ames, an internist, came to Xenia in 1952 to practice at McClellan Hospital on Rogers Street, Xenia's last privately owned hospital. Today it is Hillside Retirement Home.When McClellan Hospital closed in the 1960’s, she and the late Paul McQuiggan. M.D. built a new office on North Monroe *Drive, across the
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Xenia Sunday Gazette
Xenia, Ohio, US
Sun, Sep 12, 1999
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