This video highlights contributions to the war effort by three members of the Yale medical community: pioneering neurosurgeon Dr. Harvey Cushing, an 1891 graduate of Yale College, whose experiences in a U.S. base hospital in France allowed him to advance...
Physician Joseph Marshall Flint, professor of surgery at the Yale School of Medicine, organized Mobile Hospital No. 39 in France — also known as The Yale Unit — the first of its kind in the American Expeditionary Forces. Realizing they would not have the...