A Doctor’s Legacy: A Memoir of Merlin K. DuVal Founding Dean of Arizona’s First Medical School
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| Rating | : | 4.65 (747 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0615283934 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 302 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-05-18 |
| Language | : | English |
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There were no buildings, no faculty, and no funds. While DuVal was a public man with a long list of accomplishments, this is also a deeply personal account in which a high-powered doctor discovers that his children grew up without really knowing him.A year before his death, Dr. It was 1964. Merlin K. DuVal accepted the challenge and won strong support as he began building the University of Arizona’s first College of Medicine.Starting his adult life as a model in New York in the 1940s DuVal climbed his way up to being appointed Assistant Secretary of Health during Nixon’s administration and finally being instrumental in the founding of the University of Arizona’s medical school. DuVal worked with journalist Linda Valdez to tell his story, and the real delight of this book is reading along as this man of remarkable intellectual curiosity examines his own life, his profession, and our society.. The job was to turn a dusty field into a top-ranking medical school
For more than two decades, Linda Valdez has been an opinion writer for the largest papers in Tucson and Phoenix, specializing in medical, education, justice, immigration and other human rights issues.
Inspiring - 'He had a sorcerer's name and the bearing of a prince' - thus Linda Valdez summarizes Merlin K. DuVal at the end of "A Doctor's Legacy." Dr. DuVal is best remembered as the founding Dean of the University of Arizona Medical School in Tucson; however, his other achievements are more than enough to place most others in awe. These include being a respected surgeon (specialty in pancreatic surgery), one of the first full-time faculty at the University of Oklahoma Medical School, Assistant Secretary of Health d. "Tucson history in the making." according to Amazon Customer. I started working at this hospital two weeks after it opened so of course I wanted to read this memoir. I found it to be accurate and well written history.
About the AuthorFor more than two decades, Linda Valdez has been an opinion writer for the largest papers in Tucson and Phoenix, specializing in medical, education, justice, immigration and other human rights issues.