Presidential Physician: Charles Mason Ford
(1840-1884)

• Abraham Lincoln:
  · Assassination: consultant physician
• James Garfield:
  · Within first day after shooting: consultant physician

• Degree: MD
• Medical school: University of Pennsylvania, 1861

• Roos CA. Physicians to the Presidents, and their patients: a bibliography. Bull Med Library Assoc. 1961; 49(3): 291-360.