Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. List of Illustrations ix
4. Preface xi
5. 1. Early Days 1
6. 2. Washington Heights 10
7. 3. Speyer School for Gifted Children 22
8. 4. New York University at University Heights 27
9. 5. To Each His Farthest Star: A Medical Student at Rochester, 1929-1934 30
10. 6. Duke University Hospital and Its Medical School, 1934-1935 79
11. 7. Yale Medical School, 1935-1936 101
12. 8. Return to Duke, 1936-1937 115
13. 9. You Can Go Home Again 122
14. 10. My One and Only Wife 133
15. 11. The Bronx Is the Graveyard for Specialists, 1937 141
16. 12. The Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center, 1937—The First of Its Kind 149
17. 13. Pearl Harbor and World War II 164
18. 14. Valley Forge General Hospital, 1942-1945 171
19. 15. Tinian, 1945 202
20. 16. Saipan, 1945-1946 221
21. 17. Return to Columbia-Presbyterian, 1946 264
22. 18. The Changing of the Guard at the Medical Center 276
23. 19. An Internist-Diagnostician Rebuilds His Practice 293
24. 20. The Upjohn Grand Rounds 303
25. 21. The Iceman Cometh to Park Avenue 320
26. 22. Songs My Patients Taught Me 326
27. 23. Mr. J. Peter Grace, Chairman of W. R. Grace and Company 340
28. 24. Birth of the Upjohn Gastrointestinal Service 349
29. 25. Roosevelt Hospital, 1962-1965 355
30. 26. Consultant and Physician to President Herbert C. Hoover 363
31. 27. Problems at Roosevelt Hospital: The Bête Noir of Full Time 383
32. 28. Internal Medicine as a Vocation (1897) 389
33. 29. The Upjohn Service Moves to St. Vincent's Hospital 400
34. 30. Helicobacter Pylori and Peptic Ulcer: A Revolution in Gastroenterology 417
35. 31. Plasmapheresis for Hepatic Coma at St. Vincent's Hospital 422
36. Epilogue by Frederick E. Lepore, MD 454