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Sullivan Louis Wade <1933-> |
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Breaking ground : my life in medicine / / Dr. Louis W. Sullivan with David Chanoff ; foreword by Ambassador Andrew Young |
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Athens, Georgia : , : The University of Georgia Press, , 2014 |
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©2014 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (289 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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African American physicians |
Physicians - United States |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Blakely, Georgia -- Morehouse College -- Medical student -- The kamikaze school of medicine -- Professor -- An offer -- Founding dean -- Morehouse School of Medicine -- President Bush calls -- Mr. Secretary -- Reforming health care -- Morehouse, a model black institution -- Missing persons -- Back to the future. |
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While Louis W. Sullivan was a student at Morehouse College, Morehouse president Benjamin Mays said something to the student body that stuck with him for the rest of his life. ""The tragedy of life is not failing to reach our goals,"" Mays said. ""It is not having goals to reach."". In Breaking Ground , Sullivan recounts his extraordinary life beginning with his childhood in Jim Crow south Georgia and continuing through his trailblazing endeavors training to become a physician in an almost entirely white environment in the Northeast, founding and then leading the Morehouse School of Medicine in |
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