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2018 RENEWALS
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Arkansas is such a great place to live and practice medicine. Keep it up.
Renew your membership for 2018 now at arkmed.org/renew or watch your mail for a dues statement.
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2018 AMS Annual Session
May 4 & 5
DeGray Lake, Arkadelphia
SVMIC Seminar
May 4
During the AMS Annual Session
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Registration materials for both events
will be mailed in the near future.
OBITUARIES
HOT SPRINGS - Michael Joseph Young, MD,
61, passed away Friday, December 29, 2017.
He practiced medicine as an orthopedic sur-
geon in Hot Springs since 1993 with the past
six years at CHI St. Vincent Orthopedics Clinic.
He loved his patients, his medical colleagues,
and the honor and pleasure of working and op-
erating with his brother Chris. He is survived by
his wife, Mary Ann Willett Young; his daughters
Jordan Young, Kate Young Keller (Carl Keller),
Merritt Young (Cliff Biedenharn); and his be-
loved grandson Baer Biedenharn.
PIGGOTT - Hillard Ray Duckworth, MD, 91,
passed away December 27, 2017. Dr. Duck-
worth is survived by his wife, Gwen Duckworth;
children Thomas Duckworth (Terri) and Laura
Duckworth French (Gary); six grandchildren;
and three great-grandchildren. Dr. Duckworth
graduated from the University of Arkansas
Medical School, graduating from the Class
of 1953 with honors. He completed his post-
graduate training at St. Louis City Hospital in St.
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Louis, Mo., and established medical practices
in Piggott, Ark., from 1955 until 2017. He was a
50-year member of the Arkansas Medical Soci-
ety and the Greene-Clay County Medical Soci-
ety and served as president and vice-president.
He served his country in the Korean War and
the U.S. Army Medical Corps Reserves. He will
be sadly missed by the community and others
and will leave a deep void in the medical com-
munity and his family.
MELBOURNE - Harold Maury Tatum, MD,
passed away January 1, 2018. Dr. Tatum
graduated from the University of Arkansas
School of Medicine in 1955. He went on to join
the U.S. Air Force, where he served as a flight
surgeon in Michigan for two years. He served
as a medical representative at one of the last
above-ground nuclear detonations in 1956. He
became the first full-time physician in Izard
County in 1958 and served the residents of
Melbourne for over 40 years. He is survived by
his children Angel Tatum Craddock, Lisa Tatum,
Lori Tatum Purtle, Maury Tatum Quo and Tobias
Tatum as well as nine grandchildren and six
great-grandchildren.
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