Word: sheehan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After his lecture to New York City's police. Dr. Sheehan sped back to the Fifth Avenue Surgery of Dr. J. Eastman Sheehan, which envious doctors say is the world's most gorgeous consultation establishment. There are two butlers, a general manager (Henry Osman), a secretary and blonde Hilda Krupp, the housekeeper who stands by all day so that at any moment the Doctor may have his whittled asparagus, hamburgers or sausages, toast, strawberry jam and tea. Hilda also presses his suits (25 at a time), rolls bandages, keeps everybody cheerful, including Henry who has most...
...consultation salon on the second floor, the patient walks over thick pile turkey red carpets, passes paintings by Rubens and Van Dyck. In the consultation room are some of the mementos which make Dr. Sheehan, a lonely man, happy-Christmas cards from his good friends King Carol of Rumania, the Prince of Wales, Queen Mother Elisabeth of the Belgians, Alfonso of Spain; autographed photographs of Elisabeth, Alfonso, many a notable in government and medicine:* decorations from Belgium, France, Spain, Rumania. Fastened to red velvet and framed in gold is the "original key used by the ex-Emperor of Germany during...
...side room are the ghastly models which Dr. Sheehan, dressed in a white surgeon's gown with theatrical black lapels, makes of his patients before and after their operations. The models become especially useful when a patient welshes about the bill...
...Sheehan was the first surgeon to make colored movies of surgical operations...
...Wrote Lord Moynihan, onetime president of the Royal College of Surgeons, to Dr. Sheehan: ". . . How excellent a showman...