The Marvelous Dr. Wilson

People you Know: Dr Glenn C Wilson a favorite Doctor in Granger Utah
Dated 1958:
In 1952 Glenn C Wilson opened offices in Granger and became the community’s first physician.
The Kearns-Granger building boom had just started., the youthful Doctor noted. There were approximately 3,000 residents in Kearns and the subdivisions near 2800 West and 3500 South had not been developed.
The area has really grown since them, Dr Wilson pointed out. Granger is a fine community to live in and the people are wonderful.
He has had several local offices.
As of 1958 Dr Wilson was located at Granger Medical Center 2820 W 3500 South
Although not a native Utahan, the youthful physician moved to the Beehive state at the age of 10.
Born in 122 in Casper, Wyoming, he moved to Pleasant Grove in 1932. In 1935 he moved to Garfield and attended Cyprus High School.
At the Magna school, he was active in the music department playing the saxophone, clarinet and flute.
After his gradation in 1939 Dr Wilson attended Brigham Young University for 3 yrs. World War !! interrupted his studies in 1943. He served with the Navy until 1946 as a Hospital Corp School instructor.
Upon his return Dr Wilson resumed his medical studies at the University of Utah. At the school he was a member of Phi Rto Sigma, a medical social fraternity and the Beta Beta Beta, honorary zoology fraternity.
In 1949 Dr Wilson received his MD. His years internship was served in Boston Mass.
After completing his internship he became contract physician for Kaiser Steel co at Sunnyside, Utah mines. After 2 yrd he left to open offices in Granger.
On May 3,1943 he married the former LaVonda Brimhall of Provo. The Wilsons have 6 children: Marilyn, Edward, Patricia Annette, Richard and Sylvia. Marilyn is a student at Valley Jr while Edward and Patricia attend Granger Elementary School.
A member of the Granger LDS 3rd Ward, Dr Wilson also belongs to the Granger Lions Club, Salt Lake County and Utah State Medical Association.
In addition, he is one the medical staffs of the St Mark’s and LDS hospitals in Salt Lake City.
Photography is the main hobby of the Doctor, who also admits a love for Hi-Fi as an entertaining hobby.
We were very fortunate to have Dr Wilson practicing in our community.
He had special training in removing tonsils, and actually taught residents at the U of U medical center
In than day, most tonsillectomies involved simply cutting them out and packing the tonsilor fossa with cotton sponges until the blood vessels retracted and bleeding stopped on its own. Dr Wilson used a kind of wire snare that in s single snip would take out the entire tonsil. As he "snipped", he would apply electro cautery to the instrument, so the sealed off vessels didn't bleed. Rather than packing the fossa, he then put one, sometimes two stitches across the tonsillor fossa which further eliminated post op bleeding. Since post op bleeding was (and still is), by far, the most common complication, his "belt and suspenders" approach virtually eliminated this problem. This approach was ideal for a community that had no local hospital.vv - Murray Eagle Newspaper-

UPDATE:
Ultimately Dr Wilson had 10 children. He went on to build the 2nd Granger Medical Location which was 3500 South about approx 3200 West which was very large clinic in that time. He was the first to bring medical specialists to our community. Because of him Orthopedics, Chest surgery and many other specialties were offered for the first time ever west of Redwood Road. He expanded Granger Medical to include 5 or six dentists.
In 1962, Dr Wilson sold out his interest in the Granger Medical Center At that time he bought a small office in Salt Lake... and finally took an office across the street from the new Saint Marks Hospital.
Dr Wilson delivered more like 3000 babies in his career...