Word: brigham
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Swift yet unhurried, the tense drama of the operating room plays itself out as Dr. Francis D. Moore, surgeon in chief of Boston's Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, removes a breast afflicted with cancer...
Harvey Gushing, who was named the Brigham's first surgeon in chief...
...first tentative beginnings of the courtship between surgery and medicine can be traced back to Cushing's work on the pituitary, no man has done more to effect the marriage than Dr. Francis Daniels Moore, 49, and few have done nearly so much. When Gushing retired from the Brigham in 1932, Moore was still a Harvard undergraduate, fascinated by anthropology. At the end of his junior year, he switched to medicine, and four years later to surgery. By then Frannie Moore's personality was emerging, and he has no difficulty in explaining his choice of specialty: he likes...
...Blue Book. In the midst of such work, which he calls "a chemical dissection of the body by isotope dilution,'' Dr. Moore was named simultaneously to two of the most honored posts in U.S. surgery: surgeon in chief at the Brigham and Moseley Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School. It was 1948. and Dr. Moore was all of 34. But this was in the new American tradition. Gushing had been only 43 when he took the twin jobs. Of equal rank. Dr. Edward D. Churchill was only 35 when he became a full Harvard professor...
...complex will be located near the present site of the Children's Hospital and the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, which will probably be torn down to make way for the center. Besides reducing hospital costs, formation of the new hospital costs, formation of the new hospital center is expected to increase the efficiency of the general administration. Although Glasr will be incharge of the entire complex, each hospital will still retain its own staff...