Elmer Russell Hayes, MD: A Conversation with the Editor

Abstract

Dr. E. R. Hayes (Figure ​(Figure11) was born in Berea, Kentucky, on August 16, 1910. He attended grammar school at Berea Public Schools and then attended Berea College Academy for high school, finishing at age 16 in 1926. After his first year of college at Berea College, he transferred to Purdue University, receiving a bachelor's degree in chemical engineering in 1931. From graduation until 1934, he worked in Texas for Procter and Gamble Company and then in 1934 entered Baylor University College of Medicine, finishing at the top of his class in 1938. His internship in medicine was at Good Samaritan Hospital in Lexington, Kentucky. After 1 year he returned to Greenville, Texas, and was in general practice for 1 year before joining the US Army in 1940. He served in station and general hospitals in the USA and Europe until 1946, when he joined the Department of Medicine at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, first as a research fellow and then as an instructor in internal medicine. He returned to Dallas in 1950 and practiced internal medicine until his retirement from private practice in 1987. From the beginning in Dallas, he was clinical professor of medicine at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center. He was an active member of the medical staff at Baylor University Medical Center (BUMC) for nearly 40 years. Dr. Hayes has been a loved internist in Dallas for decades, and he has been a credit to BUMC. He is truly a lovely human being.