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	Presidential Physician: William P. Murphy (1892-????)

Presidents

John Kennedy

- Before presidency: physician

Education

Degree: MD
School: Harvard University, 1920

Notes

1. Murphy was an internist/hematologist at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston.
 

2. Murphy was Kennedy's attending physician during JFK's two-month hospitalization in 1935.
 

3. Murphy won the Nobel Prize in 1934 for his work on pernicious anemia.

References

• Marion, Robert. Was George Washington Really the Father of Our Country?. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1994; 175.