Famous Patients
Famous patients with MDS include:
- astronomer Carl Sagan
- Nobel Chemistry Prize winner Alan MacDiarmid
- writers Susan Sontag and Nora Ephron
- writer Roald Dahl
- jazz musicians Michael Brecker and Paul Motian
- actress Nina Foch
- firearms executive Val Forgett
- United States Congressmen Joe Moakley and Bob Matsui
- actor Pat Hingle
- singer and comedienne Fran Allison
- radio personality J.P. McCarthy
- Danish theoretical physicist Per Bak
- first National Spelling Bee winner Frank Neuhauser
- plant pathologist Jack Bailey
- Good Morning America host Robin Roberts
- General Motor employee and Navy veteran John T. Geis Jr.
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Famous quotes containing the words famous and/or patients:
“My neighbors tell me of their adventures with famous gentlemen and ladies, what notabilities they met at the dinner-table; but I am no more interested in such things than in the contents of the Daily Times. The interest and the conversation are about costume and manners chiefly; but a goose is a goose still, dress it as you will.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Many a woman shudders ... at the terrible eclipse of those intellectual powers which in early life seemed prophetic of usefulness and happiness, hence the army of martyrs among our married and unmarried women who, not having cultivated a taste for science, art or literature, form a corps of nervous patients who make fortunes for agreeable physicians ...”
—Sarah M. Grimke (1792–1873)