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We Heard the Call: Our Doctors and Nurses in World War I: Base Hospital No 9
on August 4, 2017

In 1916, the American Red Cross prepared for US possible involvement in the war by organizing base hospitals.  The Red Cross identified several major medical centers or hospitals to organize these units.  The...
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We Heard the Call: American Ambulance Hospital
on May 24, 2017

Several of our doctors and nurses served with the American Ambulance Hospital in Neuilly a suburb of Paris.  Americans in France who wanted access to medical care by American trained doctors formed the...
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We Heard the Call: Robert Schrock, MD Papers
on April 7, 2017

The archives has received a small collection of World War I letters by Robert Schrock, MD who served with Base Hospital No 9.  Dr. Schrock graduated from Cornell University Medical College in 1912.  After...
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Dr. Michael A. Grodin to present joint Heberden/Medical Ethics Seminar March 13, 5pm
on February 28, 2017

Please note the change from our usual venue!The Heberden Society and the WCM Division of Medical Ethics jointly present:Michael A. Grodin, MDDirector, Project on Ethics and the Holocaust  Professor of Jewish...

World War I: We Heard the Call: American Red Cross
on February 10, 2017

Two New York Hospital doctors and 45 alumni of the New York Hospital Training School for Nurses joined the American Red Cross.  Some joined at the beginning of World War I in 1914.  Here is an image of two...
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