MILTON HAS A DOCTOR
For years Milton has tried
to bring a doctor to town, so it was a surprise when, unannounced,
Dr. Charles G. Wagner,
showed up and opened a practice in the rural town of 1400
residents.
Wagner, age 32, has opened
an office next to the H. O. Brittingham School on 424 Mulberry
Street, in the former
home of the Harrison Howeth family's, Chandlers Old Orchard Farm.
He also
will make house calls.
Milton Chamber of Commerce
president, Ed Scott, says he did not ask for any help, just came
in and set up shop.
Doctor Wagner and his wife,
Jo Anne, a RN , came to Delaware in May to Milford Memorial
Hospital as full time
doctor and nurse in the emergency room where he works five days on
and five
days off, for 12 hour
shifts and will see patients by appointment on his time off and
weekends.
He was born in in 1946 in
West Virginia, grew up in Connecticut and New Jersey, was in
the Army in Korea and
Viet Nam as a helicopter pilot. He graduated in 1974 from Columbia
University's College of Physicians and Surgeons. He did resident
work at New York's St. Luke's Hospital.
Then, Mrs. Wagner said
they heard that Mlton needed a doctor and the call to the east just
“got to us”.
Abstract of Ray Goldbacher
in the Wilmington New Journal , Friday, August 25, 1978,
by Harrison H.
10/23/17.
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