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Tuesday, 18 July

Allan Friedlich, 89

Professions: Co-founder of the International Cardiology Foundation; cardiologist at Massachusetts General Hospital from 1947 to 1997; professor at Harvard Medical School; 1977 recipient of the American Heart Association’s Paul Dudley White Award, given to physicians who make significant contributions to their fields; served for three years as a medical officer in the Army Air Force, discharged as a major.

Degrees: A.B. from Dartmouth College, 1939; earned his M.D. in 1943 from Harvard Medical School, where he was number one in his class and a recipient of the Henry Asbury Christian Prize.

Quote: “[His] first response was not to get a scan, but to actually examine the patient in great detail. He was one of these doctors who made every one of his patients feel as if they were the only patient he had." — Dr. Andrew Bodnar, vice president at Bristol-Myers Squibb and longtime friend.

Death: July 7, 2006, of cancer, at his home in Belmont, Mass.

From the Boston Globe.

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