Hektoen International

A Journal of Medical Humanities

Chicago Medicine

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Michael Reese Archive
The rise and death of Chicago’s Michael Reese Hospital
Michael Reese Hospital – beginnings
Michael Reese Hospital – nurses, interns, and residents
Michael Reese Hospital – neighborhood and patients
Michael Reese Hospital – physicians
Michael Reese Hospital – pediatrics
Michael Reese Archive: comments from our readers

Peter H. Berczeller
Becoming a doctor in Chicago (c.1954)—The Chicago Medical School
Becoming a doctor in Chicago (c.1954)—Clerkship at Cook County Hospital
Becoming a doctor in Chicago (c.1954)—Clerkships at Michael Reese Hospital
Becoming a doctor in Chicago (c.1954)—The Chicago Maternity Center

Simon Cohen
Fifty years on an Englishman recalls Cook County Hospital

Raymond H. Curry and VeeLa S. Gonzales
Provident Hospital – the first Black owned and operated medical institution in the United States

Joseph deBettencourt
The founding of Rush Medical College

George Dunea
Robert Kark
The Old Cook County Hospital of Chicago
Loyal Davis (1896 – 1982)
Christian Fenger (1840-1902)
Karl A. Meyer (1888-1972)
Nicholas Senn, the great master of abdominal surgery
The Fantus clinic and the blood bank of Chicago

James Franklin
PDF Document Chicago medicine and peptic ulcer disease
GI Joe: the life and career of Dr. Joseph B. Kirsner

Patrick Guinan and George Dunea
JB Murphy: Chicago’s great but controversial surgeon

Philip R. Liebson
James Bryan Herrick

Avi Ohry
Dr. Frank Billings (1854–1932), physician and educator

Jayant Radhakrishnan
Forgotten pioneers of pediatric cardiac surgery
Jane Addams and Hull House

Jayant Radhakrishnan and Bangalore Jayaram
Orion H. Stuteville: a surgeon’s surgeon

Jayant Radhakrishnan and Nathaniel Koo
The appendicitis conundrum

John Raffensperger
Reflections on time long gone by
Beloved physicians: three unsung heroes
The surgery of pyloric stenosis in Chicago
Potts and Pott

Frank Yurasek
Mainstreaming acupuncture in Chicago