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...addition, he developed a technique for continuous cardiac monitoring and was the first physician to apply it clinically...
Paul Dudley White's start as a practicing physician 60 years ago coincided with the hesitant, unheralded beginnings of a new medical specialty: cardiology. Dr. White nurtured and grew with it: for almost half a century his name was synonymous with the study, treatment and prevention of heart disease. Last week, as the American Heart Association was preparing to add to White's endless string of awards, death-from complications following a stroke-robbed him of what would have been a most appropriate honor...
White was to have received the James B. Herrick award, named for the Chicago physician (1861-1954) who in 1912 first accurately described a coronary-artery shutdown in a living patient and in effect added the term coronary thrombosis to the language. Previously, doctors had assumed that no one could survive a heart attack. They had viewed the post-mortem finding of a coronary thrombosis merely as an interesting item of pathology, and no particular significance was attached to Herrick's report, which he admitted "fell like a dud." But it was eventually to have great impact on Paul...
...first time there has been a reasonable link, but it could be a coincidence," Ory said. "If I were a practicing physician and a patient asked me if she should stop taking the pill, I would...
...other model Eppinger follows is the old school one -- of physician as community servant. He says he thinks a doctor's first responsibility is to his community. He refuses to talk politics (except at home); he says he is "divorced from the main stream academically and politically ... and happy...