Congrats to Devin Nickol, M.D., assistant professor in the department of internal medicine, for sending in the correct answer to this week’s College of Medicine historical photo question.
Question 16 — What 1880s graduate of the medical college set up practice in the Nebraska panhandle and became famous as a frontier physician? Her career was the model for Mari Sandoz’s novel, “Miss Morissa: Doctor of the Gold Trail,” and the television series “Dr. Quinn Medicine Woman.”
Answer 16 — Georgia Arbuckle Fix. Georgia Arbuckle, class of 1883, was the first woman to graduate from the Omaha Medical College. After graduation, she practiced for three years in Omaha, then homesteaded in western Nebraska and set up practice in Gering. She was a tough, no-nonsense doctor whose exploits were legendary.
Once, she was called to a remote farm where Eli Beebe lay with skull fractures and exposed brain from a farm accident. She fashioned a plate by pounding a silver dollar thin and then used it to repair the hole, closing the scalp over it. The plate remained in place till Mr. Beebe’s death at 80 years of age.
Georgia continued her practice in Gering and died in 1918.
Complete list of contest winners
Photo question 1 — Don Dickmeyer, Facilities Management & Planning
Photo question 2 – Theresa Pikschus, Facilities Management and Planning
Photo question 3 – Audrey Paulman, M.D., family medicine
Photo question 4 – Rick Vaughn, Facilities Management and Planning
Photo question 5 – Diane Bessette, psychiatry
Photo question 6 – Mark Fleisher M.D., psychiatry
Photo question 7 – Elaine Ryan, College of Medicine
Photo question 8 – Jeanette Gardner, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Photo question 9 – Rowen Zetterman, M.D., College of Medicine
Photo question 10 – Sue Pope, College of Medicine
Photo question 11 – No winner
Photo question 12 -Terrence Vail, Plumbing Shop
Photo question 13 – Liliana Bronner, Rural Health Education Network (RHEN)
Photo question 14 -Thomas Tape, M.D., general internal medicine
Photo question 15 – Audrey Paulman, M.D., family medicine