Medical Care in Park City in 1900—Not For the Faint of Heart lecture given by Dr. Thomas Schwenk

Park City Museum will host a lecture called Medical Care in Park City in 1900—Not For the Faint of Heart given by Dr. Thomas Schwenk on Wednesday, June 3, 2026 from 5 to 6 p.m. at the Park City Museum Education and Collections Center located at 2079 Sidewinder Drive, Park City UT.

Life was rough and death common in the remote mining town of Park City in the late 1800s and early 1900s. This presentation will discuss common diseases and injuries of the era, the doctors and nurses who cared for the town, and the funding and building of the much-needed Miners Hospital in 1904.

Dr. Thomas Schwenk is a board-certified family physician who practiced in Park City from 1978 to 1984, the first full-time physician in town following the closure of the mines. A graduate of the University of Michigan Medical School, he also trained at the University of Utah. Following his academic career at the University of Michigan and the University of Nevada, Reno, he returned to Park City with his wife, Jane. They have children in Denver and Brooklyn, both of whom were born in Utah and consider themselves Parkites.