Honoring special lives: this year's inductees exemplify genius, vision and persistence

Five healthcare pioneers and leaders have been selected as 1997 inductees to the Health Care Hall of Fame. Those honored include trailblazer hospital social worker Ida Maud Cannon; hospital-physician integrator Samuel J. Tibbitts; innovative surgeon and pioneer healthcare foundation builder George W. Crile, Sr., M.D.; instigator of patient-centered care H. Robert Cathcart, and public healthcare advocate and former Surgeon General C. Everett Koop, M.D.
This year's inductees exemplify genius, vision and persistence Each year that I write this introduction about the new inductees into the Health Care Hall of Fame, I find it difficult [...]