biography
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| lived:
| (1872–1945)
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| biography:
| Surgeon and educator, born at Beverly Farms, Massachusetts, USA, the brother of Richard Clarke Cabot. He studied medicine at Harvard, then taught there (1910–19), with some time spent serving as a surgeon with the US forces in France. He introduced innovations in medical education, first at the University of Michigan Medical School (1920–30), then at the Mayo Clinic and University of Minnesota Graduate School of Medicine (1930–9). He returned to Boston and private practice, and was an advocate of prepaid group practice and government underwriting of medical care to ensure equitable distribution. |
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