The bone doctor's concerto : music, surgery, and the pieces in between / Alvin Crawford.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Crawford, Alvin H., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Crawford, Alvin H.

Orthopedists--Ohio--Cincinnati--Biography.

Orthopedists.

Pediatricians--Ohio--Cincinnati--Biography.

Pediatricians.

Pediatric orthopedics--Ohio--Cincinnati--Biography.

Pediatric orthopedics.

African American jazz musicians--Ohio--Cincinnati--Biography.

African American jazz musicians.

Orthopedists--United States--Biography.

Orthopedic Surgeons.

United States.

Medical Subjects:

Orthopedic Surgeons.

United States.

Genre:

autobiographies (literary works)

Biographies

Autobiographies.

Biographies.

Physical Description:

239 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Cincinnati : University of Cincinnati Press, [2023]

Summary:

"Born in Memphis, Tennessee in 1939, Dr. Alvin Crawford grew up and attended medical school in a segregated world. Beginning with his early life in Orange Mound--a self-contained community for freed slaves established in the 1890s--Crawford's autobiography describes his flirtation with a music degree and time spent playing in jazz bands through the segregated South. In 1960, Crawford began his ground-breaking medical career with his entrance into the University of Tennessee College of Medicine, becoming the school's first African American student. After completing his medical training and traveling the world as a surgeon for the Navy, Crawford found himself in Cincinnati, where he established the Comprehensive Pediatric Orthopedic Clinic at Cincinnati Children's Hospital, the first in the region. Underlying this story are the systemic and very personal incidents of racism Crawford experienced throughout his career. His autobiography is a personal account of segregation, integration, ambition, hard work, and taking risks."--Provided by publishers.

Contents:

In the beginning

As good as it gets

Music at Tennessee State

The qualified applicant

University of Tennessee College of Medicine

The invisible man

In the Navy now

Boston to San Diego

Europe on five dollars a day

Henry Ford Hospital and beyond

Pediatric orthopaedics at Children's Hospital

That Dr. Crawford

Naval Reserve Activity

Advances in spinal surgery

The 'Cincinnati incision'

International patients

Mission surgery experiences

Global relationships

Ohio National Insurance

It is what it is and other truths

The sink test

Fourth act : sabbatical

Fourth act : clinic

It ain't over until the tall man in the white coat plays saxophone

Those I've met (and almost met) along the way.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-236).

ISBN:

9798885500005

OCLC:

1373398391