Jack Friedman M.D.

Abstract

A brilliant career came to an untimely end in the death of Dr. Jack Friedman in September 1955, at the age of forty-four years. For some two years he had waged a losing battle against a recurring malignant disease, with great courage and tenacity. Dr. Friedman was born in Rochester, N. Y., but spent his formative years in Chicago. He was graduated from the University of Illinois in medicine in 1938 and interned at Lutheran Deaconess Hospital in Chicago. He spent the following two years in general practice in Chicago and in 1941 entered the Army. There his interest in radiology developed and expanded following a course in x-ray diagnosis at the Walter Reed Hospital. He attained the rank of Lieutenant Colonel when he was radiologist at the 177th General Hospital in France. After separation from the Army, Dr. Friedman took a full three-year residency in radiology at the University of Minnesota, leading to an M.S. degree in that specialty. In 1948–49 he made an eight-months tour of important radiologic clinic...