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By Sidney Shapiro. 215 pp., illustrated. San Francisco, Cypress Press, 1993. ISBN 0-934643-01-6.

This is an interesting book about a physician, George Hatem, also know as Ma Haide, who may well be to medicine in the 20th century what Rudolf Virchow was to medicine in the 19th century and Benjamin Rush in the 18th: the preeminent healer of and through the body politic. Sidney Shapiro, an attorney and longtime friend of Ma Haide, summons the pertinent facts to make an irrefutable case for a medical hero.

George Hatem was born September 26, 1910, in Buffalo, New York, the oldest son of poor Lebanese immigrants who were Maronite Catholics. Despite the family's poverty, Hatem's . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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