Tag Archives: Dr. William Welch

The search for Eisenhower’s adrenal tumor

May 27, 2020

Kevin R. Loughlin Boston, Massachusetts, United States   Figure 1. Letter to KRL from the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology For most Americans, the knowledge of Dwight Eisenhower’s health history is limited to the fact that he had a serious heart attack while president. However, a seemingly casual comment by a non-physician political scientist, Robert […]

What did Dorothy Reed See?

January 23, 2020

Sara Nassar Cairo, Egypt   Dorothy Mabel Reed Mendenhall. Photograph by A. Pearsall, courtesy of Alan Mason Chesney Archives of John Hopkins Medical School. “They say that genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.”1 – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet   Dorothy Mabel Reed Mendenhall opened the doors of medicine at […]