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What BooK?

For several years I collected and read Easton Press books. This morning I investigated an Easton Press add that popped up on the computer. Those books now range in price

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Leonard Coleman, MD Navasota Physician

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

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Medical Heritage of Leonard O. Coleman

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,

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Navasota Physicians

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

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Texas Medicine After the Civil War

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

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The Last of the Rural Surgeons

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

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