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...Squier corrected and signed the original and seven carbons of his life story, then scrawled: "Did it at 5:15 p.m. Goodbye...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Life Story | 10/1/1951 | See Source »

Next morning, the club manager found Dr. Squier dead in his room...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Life Story | 10/1/1951 | See Source »

Life Story His patients had lately found him gruff and moody. Nevertheless, Dr. Raymond Roscoe Squier was one of the most successful gynecologists in fashionable Greenwich, Conn. On a hot afternoon last week, he was neither in his office nor at his home: dressed only in his underwear, he was sitting at a portable typewriter in a bedroom at Manhattan's University Club, pecking out the story of his life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Life Story | 10/1/1951 | See Source »

...married Dr. Helen Flanders Dunbar, a topflight psychiatrist and pioneer in psychosomatic medicine. She, too, was recently divorced.* After three years, Drs. Squier and Dunbar separated. Their marriage, Dr. Squier confided to his typewriter, was soon to be dissolved. And he had financial worries. Because of unpaid bills, he wrote, the "$15 in my pocket is more than I have in the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Life Story | 10/1/1951 | See Source »

There were also differences with his professional colleagues in Greenwich. Dr. Squier was getting near the end of his story. "I have no objection to its being known that my death is voluntary," he wrote, "and I desire cremation as simply and quickly as possible, with no residuum anywhere." With a final flourish of professional courtesy, he added: "For the information of the medical examiner, I have taken Nembutal and Seconal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Life Story | 10/1/1951 | See Source »

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