New Glarus Doctor Changed How America Viewed Health
A New Glarus native, physician and bestselling author helped build what became Monroe Clinic while popularizing ideas about stress, emotions and health that still echo through modern medicine today too.
At the turn of the last century, a Swiss-American boy growing up in New Glarus absorbed the rhythms of a small village built by immigrants, families, faith, work and community ties.
His name was John Albert Schindler, and by the time his short life ended, he had become one of the most widely read medical voices in America.
Schindler would leave New Glarus, earn a medical degree, return home to practice medicine, help build what became Monroe Clinic and write a bestselling book that argued something many doctors now take for granted: the mind and body are not separate things.
He became an authority on psychosomatic medicine before the phrase was familiar to most people. He used his growing reputation at a young age to help create a regional medical institution that still serves southern Wisconsin, including a clinic in his hometown of New Glarus.
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