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by William G. Anlyan, M.D. ’49 (Duke University Press) Born in Alexandria, Egypt, in 1925, Anlyan attended Yale as both an undergraduate and a medical student before leaving for Duke University in 1949 for an internship in surgery. Among other things, he describes changes in the world of medicine, recalling an era when medicine focused on controlling infectious diseases like tuberculosis and polio.
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