Another who inspired and encouraged me

In addition to the death of Dr. Sartoris, in the year 2000, "we" lost
another who inspired and encouraged me back in the later 1980s to follow
through with my commitment to shining a bright light onto the mysterious
and/or not so mysterious; in an all out effort to reveal what was then
an unidentified iatroepidemic (term coined by Dr. Robin) involving the
TMJ/s.

MEMORIAL RESOLUTION
EUGENE DEBS ROBIN, M.D.
(1919-2000)
Eugene Debs Robin, M.D., Professor of Medicine and
Physiology, died at age 80, at Stanford Medical Center, of
complications of cancer.
Dr. Robin, after a distinguished career at Harvard Medical
School, in cardio-pulmonary physiology, and at the University of
Pittsburgh, joined the Stanford Faculty in 1970. He served as Chief
of the Division of Pulmonary Medicine, in the Department of
Medicine, Acting Chairman of the Department of Medicine, 1971-
1973, and Acting Chairman of the Department of Physiology, 1977-
1986. Dr. Robin served as President of the National Thoracic
Society, 1970-1971.
Of Dr. Robin¹s many accomplishments, he may have been
best known for his classic description, with Professor C. Sydney
Burwell, of Harvard, of the ³Pickwickian Syndrome², characterized
by somnolence of obese individuals, when sedentary, and for his
classic studies of the cardio-pulmonary physiology of diving
mammals. In his later years, Dr. Robin became an advocate of
patients¹ rights, and wrote ³Matters of Life and Death², a widely
used book by patients, often challenging standard medical
practices.
Committee:
Saul Rosenberg
Halsted Holman
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