Medicine
- Richard Besser, M.D., 1981, Former Acting Director, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- Mitchell Besser, M.D., 1977, founder, mothers2mothers.
- Walter Bortz II, M.D., 1951, Professor at Stanford Medical School and author of books on aging.
- Louis R. Caplan, M.D., 1958, physician and Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School.
- David Chelmow, M.D., 1984, Professor and Chairman of the Virginia Commonwealth University Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology.
- Barton Childs, M.D., 1938, pediatrician and geneticist at Johns Hopkins.
- Albert Coons, M.D., 1933, pathologist-immunologist and recipient of the 1959 Albert Lasker Award in Basic Research.
- Toby Cosgrove, M.D., 1962, chairman and CEO of the Cleveland Clinic.
- Jonathan Fielding, M.D., 1964, Director of the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health.
- Stanley Foster, M.D., 1955, led successful fight to rid world of small pox.
- Michael Roizen, M.D., author of best-seller You: The Owner's Manual, Chairman of RealAge, Inc., former Dean, Syracuse University Medical School, administrator at the Cleveland Clinic.
- R. Michael Scott, M.D., 1962, head of Pediatric Neurosurgery Department at Boston Children's Hospital; Professor of Neurosurgery at Harvard Medical School.
- Brian G. Smith, M.D., 1978, Chief of Pediatric Orthopedic Surgery at Yale-New Haven Children's Hospital; Professor of Orthopaedics at Yale Medical School. Pediatric Spine Surgeon.
- Craig R. Smith, M.D., 1970, lead surgeon on medical team that performed open-heart surgery on President William Clinton; Professor of Surgery at Columbia University Medical School.
- Scott Solomon, M.D., 1981, Professor of Medicine at Harvard University, Director of Noninvasive Cardiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital.
- Norman Spack, M.D., 1965, pediatric endocrinologist and Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School.
- Henry Reed Stiles, 1876, Superintendent of the State Homeopathic Asylum for the Insane, author of several well-regarded historical and genealogical works
- Edward J. Wing, M.D., 1967, Dean of Medicine and Biological Sciences, Brown University, Alpert Medical School.
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“I have noticed that doctors who fail in the practice of medicine have a tendency to seek one another’s company and aid in consultation. A doctor who cannot take out your appendix properly will recommend you to a doctor who will be unable to remove your tonsils with success.”
—Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961)
“After you eat always take a walk, and you’ll never have to go to a medicine shop.”
—Chinese proverb.
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“He said that private practice in medicine ought to be put down by law. When I asked him why, he said that private doctors were ignorant licensed murders.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)