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By Abraham Flexner. Introduction by Allan Nevins. Price, $5. Pp. 302, with no illustrations. Simon and Schuster, Inc., Rockefeller Center, 630 Fifth Ave.. New York 20, 1960.

William B. Bean, M. D., Reviewer

Arch Intern Med. 1961;107(3):461-462.

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A little more than a year ago I reviewed Medical Education in the United States and Canada (1910), Medical Education—A Comparative Study (1925), and I Remember: The Autobiography of Abraham Flexner (1940). Reading these three books was a memorable experience, a return to original sources in preparation for presenting the Abraham Flexner Award of the Association of American Medical Colleges to Dr. A. N. Richards. I had been in the large company of persons who often quoted or referred to The Flexner Report, but had not actually read it. After this concentrated exposure to Flexner I determined to write him a letter. In it I avowed my hero worship and said some things customarily reserved for obituary notices. For example, I expressed my confident opinion that Abraham Flexner and John Shaw Billings would "be remembered as the great men in American medicine during the heroic years of its rising out . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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