Perhaps because of William Halsted’s powerful personality, health care providers and the general public tend to stereotype surgeons as brusque and abrupt. As with most stereotypes, this comparison is an
In the first few years of his surgical practice, Leonard performed most of his surgical procedures in Navasota, but the shortage of surgeons in the area provided a demand for
After completing his surgery residency at Barnes Hospital in St. Louis and Chief Residency at Brackenridge Hospital in Austin, Dr. Leonard Coleman returned home to Navasota to help his father,
Here are Ten Bible Study questions, taken from Living by the Book by Howard and William Hendricks (Moody, 1991) 1. Is there an example to follow?2. Is there a sin to avoid?3. Is there a promise to
Leonard Coleman’s father, Solon Douglas Coleman, was a true Texan—dedicated, passionate, and rhetorical. Easily moved both to anger and to tenderness; he laughed and yelled a great deal and had
The first 25 years after the Civil War, Texas emerged as the fabled home of ranchers, cowboys, and gunfighters. In Texas, when legend generated more interest than facts, newspapers printed
Leonard Coleman’s great-grandfather, Dr. John Thomas Bolton, was born in Georgia, March 22, 1839, the son of Colonel Charles and Mary Bolton. In 1846 he moved with his family to
The similarities between Dr Leonard O. Coleman’s paternal and maternal sides of the family are uncanny. Both families came to Virginia in the 1670s and can trace their heritage to
As regular readers of this blog know Leonard O. Coleman, MD of Navasota, Texas shaped my life as a physician. Leonard came from a family of physicians dating back to
He was a gin-sodden, marihuana-inhaling, parent-resenting, chain-smoking adulterer who, by his own admission, failed to live a life his words advocated. September 25, 2005, impotent and suffering from Parkinson’s disease,
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