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Tinsley R. Harrison

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224:"Tact, sympathy and understanding are expected of the physician, for the patient is no mere collection of symptoms, signs, disordered functions, damaged organs, and disturbed emotions.  The patient is human, fearful, and hopeful, seeking relief, help and reassurance. To the physician, as to the anthropologist, nothing human is strange or repulsive. The misanthrope may become a smart diagnostician of organic disease, but can scarcely hope to succeed as a physician.  The true physician has a Shakespearean breadth of interest in the wise and the foolish, the proud and the humble, the stoic hero and the whining rogue. The physician cares for people." 36: 153:. The text initiated several unique approaches to medical textbook writing, and remains, in its current edition, one of the most widely read and regarded textbooks in medicine. An under publicized fact is that Dr. Harrison pioneered the first bi-pass heart surgery, which was later enhanced by Michael De Bakey in Houston. Harrison's career included extensive work in research, publishing, medical education, and medical practice. He taught at 47: 188:. This period saw UASOM rise from local to international prominence. The Tinsley Harrison Research Tower at UASOM is named in his honor, among other sites of interest. Additionally, the current Internal Medicine Residency at UAB is named after Harrison. 180:, where he served as Dean and chairman of the Department of Medicine. At UASOM, Harrison helped initiate a rapid period of growth that included recruitment of nationally known physicians from the faculties of such institutions as 386: 714: 441: 709: 606: 478: 379: 679: 162: 499: 306: 149: 75: 586: 372: 210:
called the book "a superb examination of an extraordinary doctor's life, seen through the lens of a turbulent century of medical and social change" and the
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a biography of Harrison that included interviews with Harrison, his family, and fellow doctors, written by his colleague and mentee James A. Pittman. The
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mechanisms of disease. His name is best known among physicians as the founding editor and editor-in-chief of the first five editions of
53: 611: 95:, on March 18, 1900. He was the son of Groce Harrison, himself a sixth-generation physician. Having graduated from public schools in 591: 514: 281: 544: 674: 539: 509: 359: 601: 616: 581: 116: 555: 326: 436: 426: 100: 108: 242: 431: 140: 267: 158: 104: 311: 206: 154: 128: 704: 699: 549: 534: 494: 410: 177: 96: 181: 107:, earning a bachelor’s degree in 1919. Dr. Harrison went on to complete his medical education at 88: 46: 35: 287: 277: 124: 624: 144: 462: 273: 197: 112: 364: 115:, with whom he developed a close lifelong friendship. He completed his internship at 668: 331: 212: 166: 243:"Dr. Tinsley Harrison Legacy - Tinsley Harrison Internal Medicine Residency Program" 504: 457: 565: 559: 524: 185: 103:
in Marion, Alabama for a year. He then pursued his undergraduate studies at the
17: 353: 79:. Harrison specialized in cardiology and the pathophysiology of heart disease. 157:'s school of medicine, at what was then the Bowman Gray School of Medicine at 131:, where he served as the first chief resident in the Department of Medicine. 70: 67: 596: 196:
Harrison died in Birmingham at the age of 78 on August 4, 1978. In 2014,
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in Baltimore. His roommate and tennis partner at Johns Hopkins was
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Harrison spent the greatest part of his teaching career at the
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University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Medicine
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Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine, 16th Ed.
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Tinsley Harrison


University of Alabama at Birmingham
American
physician
Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine
Talladega
Alabama
Birmingham
Marion Military Institute
University of Michigan
Johns Hopkins University
Alfred Blalock
Peter Bent Brigham Hospital
Boston
internal medicine
Vanderbilt University
cardiovascular medicine
pathophysiological
Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine
Vanderbilt University
Wake Forest University
University of Texas Southwestern Medical School
Dallas, Texas
University of Alabama School of Medicine
Birmingham, Alabama
Harvard University
Mayo Clinic
NewSouth Books

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