The Caring Physician: The Life of Dr.Francis W.Peabody (Francis A.Countway Library of Medicine) - Hardcover

Paul, Oglesby

9780674097384: The Caring Physician: The Life of Dr.Francis W.Peabody (Francis A.Countway Library of Medicine)

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ISBN 10: 0674097386 ISBN 13: 9780674097384

Publisher: Harvard University Press, 1994

The Caring Physician Francis W. Peabody entered medical school in 1903 and almost at once was recognized as an extraordinary human being. After a varied and exciting indoctrination in his profession, including responsibility for children ill with the dreaded poliomyelitis, an extensive medical trip to China, and an unintended role in the start of the Bolshevik Russian Revolution, he became the enormously successful ch... Full description

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Review:

In a sensitively written biography, Dr. Paul brings to life Dr. Francis Peabody, a model physician whose guiding force was the care of the patient through understanding and love. This now legendary physician was active in the beginnings of three major medical institutions--the Rockefeller Hospital, the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, and the Thorndike Memorial Lahoratory of the Boston City Hospital. A clinical scientist, an authority on typhoid fever and poliomyelitis, active in the China Medical Commission, he was also an eyewitness to Lenin's Revolution in November 1917. His contemporaries described him as a beloved teacher 'with an inner symmetry of intelligence and heart'. Stricken with metastatic disease at age 44, he possessed his soul in peace, free of out ward worry and anxiety, and with a reconciliation of biological and spiritual values. During the final weeks of his life, and despite the gravity of his condition, he wrote of his reactions to the injections of morphine, and of his concept of the roles of research, education, and patient care in a modern medical setting. This book, like Peabody's life, is an inspiration.--Joseph E. Murray, Nobel laureate in medicine 1991

About the Author:

Oglesby Paul was Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and a senior physician at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston. A native of Philadelphia, he was a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Medical School. His three years of service in the U.S. Naval Medical Corps Reserve in World War II were followed by training in cardiology in Boston at Massachusetts General Hospital under the eminent Paul Dudley White. He then pursued an active career of practice, teaching, research, and administration in Chicago at both Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center and Northwestern Medical School. He lectured and wrote extensively and, among other activities, served as head of the American Heart Association and the Subspecialty Board of Cardiovascular Disease and as chairman of a large long-term study of coronary heart disease supported by the National Institutes of Health.

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