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A Revival of Paul Dudley White
An Overview of Present Medical Practice and of Our Society
From the Favaloro Foundation, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
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Paul D. White was born in Roxbury, Mass, on June 6, 1886. He graduated from Harvard Medical School in 1911 and became a House Officer at the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) the same year. An important landmark in his life was his trip to London, where he studied under Sir Thomas Lewis in 1913. He returned to the MGH in 1914. He became an instructor in medicine at Harvard Medical School in 1921. He was a member of the founding group of the American Heart Association and was its president from 1941 to 1943. He was also a founding member of the International Council of Cardiology in 1946 and was its president the same year. He was president of the International Society of Cardiology from 1954 to 1958, and in 1957 he founded the International Society of Cardiology Foundation. (Core biographical information comes from the excellent book Take Heart by Dr Oglesby Paul. He was a resident at Harvard Medical School, which included 2 years of study of heart disease under Paul D. White. I am grateful to my friend Dr Tom Ryan, who wisely gave it to me as a present for the purposes of this lecture.)
Dr White wrote 12 books and 
758 scientific articles. He won hundreds
of well-deserved awards. He always kept an open mind for new
developments. On his return from England in 1914, he brought with him
the exciting new ECG developed by Einthoven in 1903. He was the first
to use it in
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