Wednesday, January 11, 2012

Samuel A. Scott, M.D. (1924-1955)

Dr. Samuel A. Scott, neurosurgeon, died at a local hospital in Amarillo, Texas, on June 18, 1955 of acute myocarditis.  He had been hospitalized for several days with a streptococcal infection and was discharged and dressed to leave the hospital when he was stricken.

He was born in Houston, Mississippi, on June 23, 1924, the son of Alonzo A. Scott and Mantee Scott.  He attended Mississippi State College and the University of Mississippi.  He received his medical education at Western Reserve University School of Medicine in Cleveland, Ohio, graduating in 1947.  He served his residency at the Baptist Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee and interned for two years at Baptist Hospital in New Orleans.  He was associated with the Veterans Administration Regional Office in Memphis and the VA Hospital in Jackson, Mississippi, for one year each.

Dr. Scott moved to Amarillo on February 1, 1955 and started his first private practice.  During the few months he practiced there, he had built up an unusual practice in neurosurgery and was becoming highly regarded by his colleagues for his ability.  He had applied for membership in the Potter County Medical Society but had not completed the necessary six months of practice required before he qualified for membership.  He had previously qualified for the American Board of Neurological Surgery with the exception of the required two years of practice. 

Dr. Scott was a member of the Baptist church.  He served in the Army during World War II, and was recalled during the Korean conflict, spending two years in Walter Reed Hospital in Washington, D.C.  Dr. Scott and Miss Virginia Keough were married on January 20, 1951 in Blackstone, Virginia.  Mrs. Scott survives, as do their two small children, Sandra and Brister.  Dr. Scott's father, Alonzo A. Scott of Eden, Mississippi, also survives.

== published in the Texas State Journal of Medicine, August 1955.  Transcriber is not a relative and has no further information regarding this family or Dr. Scott's career.

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