Local Doctor Retires After Forty-One Years Of Service

After 41 years of surgical service, a local doctor is retiring his scalpel. Doctor Walter Dandridge was honored for his work at Mercy Hospital in Joplin. Starting his career in 19-76, he specialized in breast surgery for the Mercy Breast Center. Doctor Dandridge played an important leadership role at the hospital; during which he has seen the medical field evolve. Dandridge says, “We treat diseases differently. We treat them a lot better. There has been so many advance…