Maynard, Aubré de Lambert, 1901-1999.
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Maynard, Aubré de Lambert, 1901-1999.
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Maynard, Aubré de Lambert, 1901-1999.
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Dr. Aubre De Lambert Maynard (1901-1999) was born in Georgetown, Guyana. He authored of Surgeons to the Poor: The Harlem Hospital Story in 1978. Maynard earned his B.A. (1922) from the College of the City of New York and M.D. (1926) from New York University Medical College. That same year Maynard became one of the first black interns at Harlem Hospital, spurring the resignation of several white physicians. He served as president of the Harlem Surgical Society in 1951, and in 1954 Maynard became the second black person to be elected to the New York Surgical Society. While he was director of surgery at Harlem Hospital, he performed a successful operation in 1958 on Martin Luther King who had been attacked with a knife which had remained embedded in his sternum. The seriousness of the wound was later explained by another physician on the team that saved him: "Had Dr. King sneezed or coughed the weapon would have penetrated the aorta. ... He was just a sneeze away from death."
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African American physicians
African Americans
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