Title

Personal Papers of Dr. Rolland Pistulka

Creation Date

1882 – 2002

Description

Personal papers from Dr. Rolland Pistulka. Pistulka specialized in family medicine. He attended Creighton University School of Medicine in Omaha, NE. Pistulka practiced medicine in Nebraska, Iowa, Chaska and Shakopee, spending many years at St. Francis Hospital and being actively involved with St. Gertrude's Health & Rehabilitation Center. Pistulka also worked as a volunteer and board member for the Minnesota Valley Restoration Project, Historic Murphy's Landing, and the Scott County Historical Society. In his capacity as a volunteer with Murphy's Landing, he worked as a re-enactor, creating and presenting the persona of "Dr. Dunn" - a late 1900s doctor in the Minnesota River Valley.

This record group includes:
-March 18, 1882 issue of "The Medical Gazette. A weekly Journal of Medicine, Surgery and the Collateral Sciences".
-Booklet titled "Diagnostic Standards and Classification of Tuberculosis", 1950.
-Booklet titled "The Doctor At Home", 1884.
-Volumes I and II of the booklets "The Law and the Doctor", 1903. These booklets cover malpractice and the doctor's role in criminal and civil lawsuits.
-Handbill "The Treatment and Prevention of Digestive Diseases", undated.
-Booklet "Essentials of the Neurological Examination", 1962.
-Children's booklet on the history of medical care titled "Medicine News; The Germ of An Idea", 1997.
-Correspondence between Pistulka and longtime Shakopee doctor Bror Pearson, 1995.
-Notes, speeches, meeting agendas, goals, and other items related to Pistulka's involved with St. Francis Regional Medical Center's capital campaign, 1995.
-Script for a historic trolley tour of Shakopee, undated.
-Folder advertising Crossroads Medical Centers P.A. in Chaska, Prior Lake and Chanhassen, undated.
-Papers related to the Minnesota Valley Restoration Project/Historic Murphy's Landing including the organization's by-laws, lists of board members, Preservation Committee minutes, memos and correspondence, contracts, policies, financial statements, area maps, goals, object wish lists, and so on. Undated and 1994-1997.
-Biography and notes related to creating the Murphy's Landing character of "Dr. Dunn", history of medicine, role of the pioneer doctor, and undated. Dunn, James
Pistulka, Rolland