Volume 52, Number 19 · December 1, 2005
Top Doc
By Sherwin B. Nuland
Harvey Cushing: A Life in Surgery
by Michael Bliss
Oxford University Press, 591 pp., $40.00
Late on a Friday afternoon in May 1984, seventy-five-year-old Betsey Whitney, the last of the three Cushing sisters whose photos had appeared on so many society pages earlier in the century, sat in rapt attention as her father's many contributions to medical science were described to an audience of about 150 fascinated listeners. The occasion was the annual Meeting of the Associates of the Yale Medical Library, and the speaker was Dr. Jeremiah Barondess, professor of medicine at Cornell and, coincidentally, her own personal physician.
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