John D. Davidson Oral History

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John D. Davidson Oral History

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Davidson discusses his experiences as a medical student at Washington University School of Medicine, his internship at St. Louis City Hospital, and his fellowship in Cardiology at the National Heart Institute in Bethesda, Maryland, which involved the study of hypertension. Davidson discusses research at St. Luke’s Hospital on treatments to decrease the amount of heart damage after a heart attack. Davidson also discusses changes in medical education from the late 1940s/early 1950s to the mid-1970s, and medical malpractice insurance and Medicaid problems facing physicians in the 1970s.

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• English

• Latin

Oral history interview: http://beckerexhibits.wustl.edu/oral/interviews/davidson.html

• Davidson, John D., Vertical File
• John D. Davidson Oral History

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• Faculty Collection
• Students, Medical
• Education, Medical
• Interns (Medicine)
• Hypertension
• Internship and Residency
• Insurance, Liability
• Malpractice.
• Myocardial Infarction

• Saint Louis (Mo.)

• Department of Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine (Subject)
• National Heart Institute (U.S.) (Subject)
• Saint Luke's Hospital (Saint Louis, Mo.) (Subject)

• Oral histories