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Author Sullivan, Louis Wade, 1933-

Title Breaking ground : my life in medicine / Dr. Louis W. Sullivan with David Chanoff ; foreword by Ambassador Andrew Young
Published Athens : The University of Georgia Press, [2014]
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Contents 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
Summary 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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Subject Sullivan, Louis Wade, 1933-
SUBJECT Sullivan, Louis Wade, 1933-
Sullivan, Louis Wade, 1933-
Sullivan, Louis Wade, 1933- fast
Subject United States. Department of Health and Human Services -- Officials and employees
Morehouse School of Medicine.
SUBJECT United States Department of Health and Human Services
Morehouse School of Medicine
Morehouse School of Medicine fast
United States. Department of Health and Human Services fast
Subject African American physicians -- Biography
Physicians -- United States -- Biography
Physicians -- history
Black or African American -- history
History, 20th Century
History, 21st Century
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Medical.
HEALTH & FITNESS -- Holism.
HEALTH & FITNESS -- Reference.
MEDICAL -- Alternative Medicine.
MEDICAL -- Atlases.
MEDICAL -- Essays.
MEDICAL -- Family & General Practice.
MEDICAL -- Holistic Medicine.
MEDICAL -- Osteopathy.
HISTORY -- United States -- 20th Century.
African American physicians
Employees
Physicians
SUBJECT United States https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D014481
Subject United States
Genre/Form autobiographies (literary works)
Autobiographies
Biographies
Autobiographies.
Biographies.
Autobiographies.
Autobiographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
Author Chanoff, David
ISBN 9780820346939
0820346934
Other Titles My life in medicine