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Author Boutwell, Bryant, author

Title I'm Dr. Red Duke / Bryant Boutwell ; foreword by George H.W. Bush
Edition First edition
Published College Station : Texas A & M University Press, [2018]

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Description 1 online resource (1 volume)
Contents Beginnings -- Family ties -- Lessons in life -- A college man -- Tank commander -- Seminary Hill -- Canadian outback -- Medical school days -- Meeting the president -- A Texan in New York -- Afghanistan -- Home to Texas -- Life flight -- TV doc -- A conservationist at heart -- Living with Red Duke -- Second marriages -- Working with Red Duke -- Saying good-bye
Summary James Henry "Red" Duke Jr., MD, was an icon of twentieth-century medicine, a pioneer and visionary, and a lifelong son of Texas who, far from forgetting his roots, reveled in them. Bryant Boutwell?s entertaining and meticulously researched biography of Red Duke, based on years of interviews with Duke and his family, friends, and colleagues as well as painstaking exploration of both public archives and personal papers and effects, not only pays tribute to a great surgeon and his influence but also crafts a detailed and intimate portrait of the man behind the larger-than-life television image. Not only did Duke found the Life Flight air ambulance service that helped place Memorial Hermann Hospital and the Texas Medical Center at the forefront of the nation?s trauma units, he also advanced the use of media communications for reaching the public with both common-sense and cutting-edge health information. His famous tagline?"From the University of Texas Health Science Center in Houston . . . I?m Dr. Red Duke"?delivered in the deadpan drawl of a Texan, could be heard in countless homes during the broadcast of the local evening news during the 1980s and 1990s. Beyond these accomplishments, Duke was an Eagle Scout, an ordained minister, a medical missionary, a conservationist, a hunting guide, and a tank commander. Featuring a wealth of previously unpublished images that help to chronicle Duke?s life and storied career, I?m Dr. Red Duke opens with a foreword by fellow Houstonian George H. W. Bush, who calls Duke "one of the brightest Points of Light Barbara and I have had the privilege to know."
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Duke, James H., Jr. (James Henry), 1928-2015.
Television personalities -- United States -- Biography
Medical teaching personnel -- Texas -- Houston -- Biography
Surgeons -- Texas -- Houston -- Biography
Surgeons
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Medical.
MEDICAL -- Surgery -- General.
Medical teaching personnel
Surgeons
Television personalities
SUBJECT Texas
Subject Texas -- Houston
United States
Genre/Form Electronic books
Biographies
Form Electronic book
Author Bush, George, 1924-2018, writer of foreword.
ISBN 9781623496951
1623496950