Presidential Physician: William P. Murphy
1892-????
Presidents
Education
- Medical school: Harvard University, 1920
Notes
- Murphy was an internist/hematologist at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston.
- Murphy was Kennedy's attending physician during JFK's two-month hospitalization in 1935.
- Murphy won the Nobel Prize in 1934 for his work on pernicious anemia.
References
- Marion, Robert. Was George Washington Really the Father of Our Country?. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1994; 175.