Merced Medical Clinic is the oldest continuing medical practice in Merced County. In 1926, Chester Moyle, M.D. set up a clinic in Merced to be closer to his ailing father. He envisioned an outpatient clinic with different medical professionals under one roof sharing one waiting room. In 1936, Edwin Soderstrom, M.D. joined Dr. Moyle and the clinic began to expand including more physicians and specialties, including Dr. Walt Adams.
In 1939 Dr. Moyle and Dr. Soderstrom met Dr. Harry Maytum, a young surgery resident at Merced Community Medical Center. After serving in World War II, Dr. Maytum also joined Merced Medical Clinic in the new office at 55th and Canal Streets. In 1948, Dr. Chester Moyle retired, handing the clinic to the next generation of clinicians.
In 1963, a general surgeon from Canada, John Anglin M.D., joined the clinic. In need of an internal medicine physician for the third generation of clinic doctors, Dr. Maytum and Dr. Adams, along with their wives Louetta and Eileen respectively, recruited Satnam S. Uppal, M.D., a senior internal medicine resident in Pennsylvania.
Dr. and Mrs. Louetta Maytum (pictured above in 1993) corresponded by letter with Dr. Uppal and his wife Yash encouraging the young family to make the trip across the continental United States to Merced while Dr. and Mrs. Eileen McClory Adams (pictured below in her younger modeling years) began what would be an enduring friendship with the Uppal family that continued until their deaths in the early 1980s.
By the early 1980s, the third generation of Merced Medical Clinic physicians had taken the helm led by Dr. Uppal and Dr. Anglin. During this time, Merced Medical Clinic’s modern facility at 650 W. Olive Ave was planned and constructed where it stands and continues to serve the community today.
Merced Medical Clinic 