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

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Dr. Ginsburg with wife, Helen, and children, William and Joyce. He became a Board man in Internal Medicine in 1941, and has been actively teaching since. We always will recall him as the “kidney doctor: but Dr. Ginsburg claims thrat this is unfair. As a resident, he instructed in the clinics; he was in charge of the initial lectures in Therapeutics, and has taught several subjects in medicine for the last 15 years. But for the last 10 years, hypertension and diseases of the kidney have been presented by Dr. Ginsburg— therefore, his modern eponym must persist.

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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.

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The coming of World War II introduced the Army, where he stayed from 1942 to 1946. After temporary stationing in Miami and Indiana, he was permanently placed in Mitchell Field, Long Island, N, Y. His task was as one of the many unseen, unheard, unpublicized instructors and supervisors. It was his role to maintain efficient medical standards, to complement the existing medical knowledge, and to prepare for any and all conceivable emergencies. Returning from service with the Armed Forces to Temple, Dr. Ginsburg brought with him a wife. He had married Helen, then an army nurse, in 1943. They now have two children—William, age twelve, and Joyce, age six. They have settled in Overbrook Hills, Lower Merion, Pa. Besides his private practice and hospital service as an active staff member and professor, Dr. Ginsburg has become a member of and contributor to several medical societies. These include the American Medical Association, Philadelphia County Medical Society, College of Physicians of Philadelphia, American College of Physicians, American Federation for Clinical Research, American Heart Association, and American Association or Advancement of Science. In addition, he has been elected a member of Alpha Omega Alpha, the Medical Honorary Society. We will always be grateful that neither the boy nor his environment ignored or obstructed the persistent, intense desire to become an M.D.