Publication Date

2-11-1974

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Abstract

Dr. Jared E. Clarke interviewed by Don Macon. Produced for the Texas Medical Center Historical Resources Project.

Dr. Clarke discusses his personal family history and his interest in medicine due to physicians in his family. He discusses his education and noted that he knew Dr. Ernst W. Bertner at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston although he was two years behind him, graduating in 1913. Dr. Clarke speaks of the hospital facilities in Houston after his return from World War I and the services of doctors prior to Texas Medical Center (TMC).

Dr. Clarke talked about the founding of the Houston Academy of Medicine and the beginning of the library now housed in the Jesse H. Jones - TMC Library Building.

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