Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Preface
- Chapter 1 Early Days
- Chapter 2 Washington Heights
- Chapter 3 Speyer School for Gifted Children
- Chapter 4 New York University at University Heights
- Chapter 5 To Each His Farthest Star–A Medical Student at Rochester: 1929–1934
- Chapter 6 Duke University Hospital and Its Medical School, 1934–1935
- Chapter 7 Yale Medical School, 1935–1936
- Chapter 8 Return to Duke, 1936-1937
- Chapter 9 You Can Go Home Again
- Chapter 10 My One and Only Wife
- Chapter 11 The Bronx Is the Graveyard for Specialists, 1937
- Chapter 12 The Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center, 1937 — The First of Its Kind
- Chapter 13 Pearl Harbor and World War II
- Chapter 14 Valley Forge General Hospital, 1942–1945
- Chapter 15 Tinian, 1945
- Chapter 16 Saipan, 1945–1946
- Chapter 17 Return to Columbia-Presbyterian, 1946
- Chapter 18 The Changing of the Guard at the Medical Center
- Chapter 19 An Internist-Diagnostician Rebuilds His Practice
- Chapter 20 The Upjohn Grand Rounds
- Chapter 21 The Iceman Cometh to Park Avenue
- Chapter 22 Songs My Patients Taught Me
- Chapter 23 Mr. J. Peter Grace, Chairman of W. R. Grace and Company
- Chapter 24 Birth of the Upjohn Gastrointestinal Service
- Chapter 25 Roosevelt Hospital, 1962–1965
- Chapter 26 Consultant and Physician to President Herbert C. Hoover
- Chapter 27 Problems at Roosevelt Hospital: The Bête Noir of Full Time
- Chapter 28 Internal Medicine as a Vocation (1897)
- Chapter 29 The Upjohn Service Moves to St. Vincent’s Hospital
- Chapter 30 Helicobacter Pylori and Peptic Ulcer: A Revolution in Gastroenterology
- Chapter 31 Plasmapheresis for Hepatic Coma at St. Vincent’s Hospital
- Epilogue
- Endmatter
Chapter 26 - Consultant and Physician to President Herbert C. Hoover
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 17 March 2023
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Preface
- Chapter 1 Early Days
- Chapter 2 Washington Heights
- Chapter 3 Speyer School for Gifted Children
- Chapter 4 New York University at University Heights
- Chapter 5 To Each His Farthest Star–A Medical Student at Rochester: 1929–1934
- Chapter 6 Duke University Hospital and Its Medical School, 1934–1935
- Chapter 7 Yale Medical School, 1935–1936
- Chapter 8 Return to Duke, 1936-1937
- Chapter 9 You Can Go Home Again
- Chapter 10 My One and Only Wife
- Chapter 11 The Bronx Is the Graveyard for Specialists, 1937
- Chapter 12 The Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center, 1937 — The First of Its Kind
- Chapter 13 Pearl Harbor and World War II
- Chapter 14 Valley Forge General Hospital, 1942–1945
- Chapter 15 Tinian, 1945
- Chapter 16 Saipan, 1945–1946
- Chapter 17 Return to Columbia-Presbyterian, 1946
- Chapter 18 The Changing of the Guard at the Medical Center
- Chapter 19 An Internist-Diagnostician Rebuilds His Practice
- Chapter 20 The Upjohn Grand Rounds
- Chapter 21 The Iceman Cometh to Park Avenue
- Chapter 22 Songs My Patients Taught Me
- Chapter 23 Mr. J. Peter Grace, Chairman of W. R. Grace and Company
- Chapter 24 Birth of the Upjohn Gastrointestinal Service
- Chapter 25 Roosevelt Hospital, 1962–1965
- Chapter 26 Consultant and Physician to President Herbert C. Hoover
- Chapter 27 Problems at Roosevelt Hospital: The Bête Noir of Full Time
- Chapter 28 Internal Medicine as a Vocation (1897)
- Chapter 29 The Upjohn Service Moves to St. Vincent’s Hospital
- Chapter 30 Helicobacter Pylori and Peptic Ulcer: A Revolution in Gastroenterology
- Chapter 31 Plasmapheresis for Hepatic Coma at St. Vincent’s Hospital
- Epilogue
- Endmatter
Summary
“I outlived the bastards.”
On 7 january 1964, i was asked by Dr. Ralph Boots to see, in consultation, former President Herbert C. Hoover, who was suffering with gastrointestinal complaints. President Hoover had requested the consultation in writing. The request is in my possession. It is written in pencil on plain white stationery in Mr. Hoover's own hand. It reads as follows:
Dear Dr. Boots & Bowman [sic: Bauman]: It seems to me we have reached a point where our treatment for digestive gasses must be reviewed. I have asked Allan to take up the subject as to what can be done.
I go for hours—sometimes a whole night awaking every few minutes endeavoring to expel stomach gases. It seems everything turns to gas in a few minutes irrespective of medication of pills and drugs.
The reasons for my selection as the consultant were not entirely clear to me, for all of the previous consultants had been chosen from the staff of the Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center. I had left that institution after completing twenty-five years of service in 1962 to found and direct the Upjohn Gastrointestinal Service at the Roosevelt Hospital. I was well known to Dr. Boots, Dr. Schullinger, Dr. St. John, and Dr. John Lattimer, the doctors involved in President Hoover's care. Dr. Boots, the physician in charge, was rather skeptical that anyone could help Mr. Hoover and was quite blunt in telling me this while we were riding in the elevator to the Waldorf Towers, Apartment 31A, occupied by Mr. Hoover.
The consultation was quite formal and was held in the living room of the spacious apartment occupied by President Hoover as a residence and office for many years. We were surrounded by items recalling some of Mr. Hoover's great contributions to public life and also much personal memorabilia. A lovely oil portrait of his deceased wife graced one wall adding elegance and charm to the room. Two cupboards housing her priceless collection of Chinese porcelain occupied key corners. In the southeast corner of the room was Mr. Hoover's desk where much of his writing was done. There was a fireplace in the wall that contained artificial logs and coals. Over the mantlepiece were numerous testimonials of honors rendered and tributes paid to this great man.
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- The Life of the ClinicianThe Autobiography of Michael Lepore, pp. 363 - 382Publisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2002