Tag: Linda S. Slusser
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St. Patrick’s Hospital: a legacy of Jonathan Swift
Linda Slusser Wellington, Ohio, United States Jonathan Swift by Charles Jervas, 1718 Today, St. Patrick’s Hospital in Dublin, known for the innovative care of its patients provides “Ireland’s largest, independent, not-for-profit mental health services.”1 When founded in 1745 by the bequest of Jonathan Swift, it was the first psychiatric hospital to be built in…
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Thomas Dent Mütter: Innovative surgeon and teacher
Linda SlusserWellington, Ohio, United States At his death on March 19, 1859, Thomas Dent Mütter, MD, was only forty-eight. Yet according to his friend and colleague Dr. Joseph Pancoast, Mütter had risen “to the first rank among the members of his profession” and had earned “the highest reputation as a practitioner and a teacher” in…