Hektoen International

A Journal of Medical Humanities

Tag: Brian Andrew Sharpless

  • Colonial madness: The Public Hospital of Williamsburg, Virginia

    Brian Andrew Sharpless Pullman, United States   The founding of the hospital The Public Hospital of Williamsburg. Photo by Ryan Lintelman, February 28, 2006, on Wikimedia. Public domain. Although it is widely known that the first hospital in the United States was the Pennsylvania Hospital (founded in 1751 in Philadelphia), few may realize that the…