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Moments in surgery| Volume 142, ISSUE 5, P773-775, November 2007

A letter from the battlefront

      William (Bill) McConahey (Fig 1) and my father, Joseph Davis (Fig 2), graduated from medical school at Harvard and Indiana University, respectively, in May of 1942. They started their rotating internships at Philadelphia General Hospital about a month later.
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      Fig 1Dr McConahey in battle uniform.
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      Fig 2Dr Joseph Davis in his hospital “whites”.
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      Reference

      1. www.phila.gov/heath/history