Temple University School of Medicine - Skull Yearbook (Philadelphia, PA)

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Isadorc Wilchcr Ginshurg, B.A., M.D., M.S. (Medicine), F.A.C.P., Clinical Professor of Medicine On the third day of September in the year 1905 at nearby Chester, Pennsylvania, an uncomplicated pregnancy terminated with an uneventful delivery of one wailing lad. his name— Isadore Wilcher Ginshurg. The hoy successfully passed his courses in orality, anality, et al, and dashed forth into late childhood with ample ambitions. Beyond his daydreams of being a fierce fireman, a staunch soldier, or at least a skin-diver, he declared his principal goal—to become a doctor of medicine. Perhaps, it was an existing joke or perhaps a true confirmation, hut our young hoy was nicknamed, “Doc. And everyone knows that such titles are difficult to erase. “Doc” was also “Jerry,” another name that has persisted. To he sure, Jerry was really his dog, hut, after several years, who can recall whether it was the chicken or the egg? The newspapers announced, “Jack Dempsey is a riveter in town. And so “Doc,” now a young man of 13, in the summer of 1919, went huntin' for a job as a riveter. He settled for one of heating and passing the rivets; hut alas, there was no Dempsey to he seen. But what about that ambition? He attended Washington and Lee University, where he received a B.A. in English. Occasionally, hooks were closed, and athletics became the matter of keen interest. Playing most, and enjoying all sports, he participated on the college teams in boxing, baseball, ami football. He must also have been considered a fair basketball player, since he played a year as a professional for a local Chester team while he was a freshman in medical school. In 1928, his life's goal still dangling, he entered the field of business as an efficiency engineer, a position he held for two years. His role was to evaluate costs of construction and to offer appropriate corrections. We may he selfish, hut arc glad that he soon chose to redirect his talents to pathologic evaluations. Finally, to our subsequent delight and appreciation, “Doc” entered Temple University School of Medicine in order to remove the quotation marks. In 1934. Temple christened one Dr. I. W. Ginshurg, hut tenaciously clung to him . . . through his internship from 1934 to 1936, his medical residency until 1939, and as a staff member ever since. Dr. Ginshurg was the only medical resident that Temple had at the time, in fact, he was the very first in the hospital's history.