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	Presidential Physician: Cary Travers Grayson (1878-1938)

Presidents

1	Theodore Roosevelt	- During presidency: physician
2	William Taft	- During presidency: physician
3	Woodrow Wilson	- During presidency: primary physician

Education

Degree: MD
School: University of South Medical Department, 1903

Military

• RADM, USN
 

• Was Lieutenant Commander during T. Roosevelt presidency

Notes

• No physician-President relationship has been closer than Grayson and Wilson. They met by chance, when Wilson's sister fell and cut her head on the day of Wilson's first inauguration (Smith p.5). Grayson, assigned to the White House as a subordinate physician, stitched her up so efficiently that Mrs. Wilson [the first] later selected him as the President's personal physician (Smith, p.7).

  Grayson attended Mrs. Wilson in her final illness and was Wilson's go-between to the fiancee that followed (Smith, pp. 21-22).

 

• Grayson recommended Dr. Ross McIntire to be Franklin Roosevelt's presidential physician [MacMahon and Curry, p. 61].

References

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

2. MacMahon, Edward B.; Curry, Leonard. Medical Cover-Ups in the White House. Washington, DC: Farragut Publishing, 1987.
 

3. Smith, Gene. When the Cheering Stopped: the Last Years of Woodrow Wilson. New York: William Morrow, 1964.