Life of the Clinician The Autobiography of Michael Lepore [Hardcover]

Michael Lepore [1910-2000] was a pioneer in the field of gastroenterology. He was a member of one of the first graduating classes of the University of Rochester Medical School, and went on to a distinguished career at Columbia University, New York University, and St. Vincent's Hospital and Medical Center of New York. This autobiography tells of his experiences as an Italian-American who overcame prejudices to become the personal physician to such notables as Greta Garbo and President Herbert Hoover. His story is witty and cleverly written, and details the way the medical profession changed from the Great Depression to the late 1990s. Michael Lepore was an alumnus of Duke University Medical School and the University of Rochester School of Medicine, and was the Director, Gastroenterology Section, Departments of Medicine and Surgery Emeritus, St. Vincent's Hospital and Medical Center of New York.The autobiography of one of America's most important gastroenterologists.Early DaysWashington HeightsSpeyer School for Gifted ChildrenNew York University at University HeightsTo Each His Farthest Star: A Medical Student at Rochester, 1929- 1934Duke University Hospital and Its Medical School, 1934-1935Yale Medical School, 1935-1936Return to Duke, 1936-1937You Can Go Home AgainMy One and Only WifeThe Bronx Is the Graveyard for Specialists, 1937The Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center, 1937 - The First of Its KindPearl Harbor and World War IIValley Forge General Hospital, 1942-1945Tinian, 1945Saipan, 1945-1946Return to Columbia-Presbyterian, 1946The Changing of the Guard at the Medical CenterAn Internist-Diagnostician Rebuilds His PracticeThe Upjohn Grand RoundsThe Iceman Cometh to Park AvenueSongs My Patients Taught MeMr. J. Peter Grace, Chairman of W.R. Grace and CompanyBirth of the Upjohn Gastrointestinal ServiceRoosevelt Hospital, 1962-1965