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Vanessa Northington Gamble, MD, PhD and Theodore M. Brown, PhD

Vanessa Northington Gamble is with the George Washington University, Washington, DC. Theodore M. Brown is with the Departments of History and Community and Preventative Medicine, University of Rochester, NY.

Correspondence: Requests for reprints should be sent to Vanessa Northington Gamble, MD, PhD, University Professor of Medical Humanities, The George Washington University, Gelman Library, Suite 709G, 2130 H Street, NW, Washington, DC 20052 (e-mail: vngamble@gwu.edu).

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On October 10, 1933, Midian Othello Bousfield, MD, then president-elect of the National Medical Association, an organization of Black physicians, spoke at the annual meeting of the American Public Health Association. In his presentation, "Reaching the Negro Community," he called on increased public health attention to the plight of Blacks in the United States and outlined his views on how to accomplish this goal. Bousfield's appearance underscored his stature as one of the nation's leading Black physicians and his prominence as an influential advocate for the needs of Black patients and health care professionals.

Bousfield was born on August 22, . . . [Full Text]