By ANNA BROWN

The “doctor is in” at the Union County Museum.

No, Dr. P.K. Switzer Jr. isn’t seeing patients, but his office equipment is on display in the museum’s “Living History Room.”

Switzer donated the equipment to the museum when he retired two years ago. It will be on display through mid-May.

“The display in this room rotates regularly and we decided with this rotation we wanted to do a salute to Dr. Switzer,” said museum executive director Ola Jean Kelly.

“This is nice,” Switzer said during a recent review of the display with Mrs. Kelly. “You can open an office anytime.”

The display is labeled “The doctor is in” and includes Switzer’s examination table and a host of modern and antique medical equipment used by Switzer and his father, Dr. P.K. Switzer Sr., with whom he practiced for many years.

Many of the medical tools are displayed together on a table. Switzer picked them up and named many of them and pointed to things around the room.

“That’s an X-ray box,” he said. “That’s an autoclave that you sterilize instruments in. These are instruments but some of them belonged to my father and I don’t know what they are. That’s an adenoid snare.”

Also included in the display is a centrifuge, an electrocardiogram and a set of baby scales.

Included on the “doctor is in” sign is the old three-digit telephone number for Switzer’s office. Mrs. Kelly looked back in an old city directory and found it.

Mrs. Kelly said like many of Switzer’s former patients, she holds him with love and respect. She said he delivered her oldest son, Tommy. Years later when Tommy earned his doctorate, Mrs. Kelly proudly told the Good Doctor, as Switzer was fondly called, that the baby he had delivered was now a doctor.

Switzer surprised her by remembering and remarking that Dr. Tommy Kelly was born on a Wednesday.

“I was very flattered thinking he remembered back almost 40 years when my first child was born,” Mrs. Kelly said. “Then he burst my bubble by saying all the babies he delivered were on a Wednesday — that’s the day (his father) went fishing.”

Switzer, now 91, said he stays busy, including with a daily workout at Austin Rehab, but he still misses his practice.

“I enjoy myself every day, but I miss seeing people,” he said.