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Atlantic City memories
Franklin H. Epstein
Franklin H. Epstein
Published April 1, 2008
Citation Information: J Clin Invest. 2008;118(4):1222-1223. https://doi.org/10.1172/JCI34654.
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Personal perspective

Atlantic City memories

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Abstract

Fifty years ago, the Atlantic City meetings, held the first week in May of every year, were attended by all the elite of American academic medicine and all who wanted to join that group. Part of the magic of those meetings was that professors and neophytes took each other seriously and talked to each other.

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Figure 1

Typical celebrants at the conclusion of an ASCI meeting in Atlantic City in the 1950s.

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Typical celebrants at the conclusion of an ASCI meeting in Atlantic City...
Left to right: Franklin H. Epstein (later William Applebaum Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Physician-in-Chief, Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital, Boston), Alexander Leaf (later Jackson Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Physician-in-Chief, Massachusetts General Hospital), and Sheila Sherlock (later Dame Sheila Sherlock and Physician-in-Chief, Royal Free Hospital, London). The face of Leaf’s wife, Barbara, is hidden by Sherlock’s hand.

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