A Final Note from Dr. Swanson (for a while)
This concludes Other Possibilities. My sincere thanks for joining me on this journey over the past hundred-plus days as I’ve shared the story of Lawson Scruggs.
Other Possibilities
A true tale of 1890s medicine, power, and transformation, told in daily scenes. A Black doctor dared to create health and community and we still need his vision today. ER doc perspective.
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Scene 110: Epilogue (continued)
2025
Scene 109: Epilogue
2018
Scene 108: Coda: What became of Fleming, Wells, Lewis, White, Young, Daniels, Royster, Burgess, and Scruggs in the years that followed
1899-2008
Scene 107: Patients recovered at Scruggs’s Sanitarium as Raleigh’s Black mortality soared.
1900-1902
Scene 106: Dr. Royster is a Leader at the Tri-State Medical Association in Charleston, South Carolina, on February 21, 1900
February, 1900
Scene 105: “squash the political power and influence of Black people.”
1900
Scene 104: Mandatory Vaccinations for Smallpox
1899: The Last Health Conference with the People
Scene 103: Scruggs Adapts. Royster Ascends in Medicine.
1899
Scene 102: Replacing Community Health with Hospital Treatment
1898-1899: Black Hospital Leadership Was Replaced with White Physicians and Nurses