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Richard E. Holmes. Richard E. Holmes (born February 17, 1944) is an American medical doctor who specialized in emergency department medicine. As a third-year college student, in 1965 he enrolled in the previously segregated Mississippi State University. He was one of five black Mississippians who pioneered the effort to desegregate the major ...
Kuhn Memorial State Hospital. Vicksburg. Warren. 84. 1847. 1989. Founded in 1847 as the Vicksburg City Hospital. Came under control of the University of Mississippi in 1908 and name changed to Mississippi State Charity Hospital. Renamed Kuhn Memorial in 1954.
The hospital is the seventh largest provider of medical and surgical services in the state of Mississippi. [2] The hospital has been certified by The Joint Commission.[3] In 2009, it employed a total of 1,100 people, including 100 doctors, making it Lowndes County's largest private employer.[4] Baptist Golden Triangle is also home to one of the ...
Starkville is the largest city in the Golden Triangle, which had a population of 175,474 in 2020, and the principal city of the Starkville-Columbus, MS CSA. Founded in 1831, the city was originally known as Boardtown for the local sawmilling operation there, but was renamed in 1837 to honor American Revolutionary War general John Stark.
The University of Mississippi Medical Center opened in 1955, [3] but its beginnings date to 1903 when a two-year medical school was established on the parent campus in Oxford. In that era, certificate graduates went out of state to complete their doctor of medicine degrees. [citation needed] University Medical Center, circa 1950
Thomas F. Frist Sr. (1910–1998), cardiologist, founder of Hospital Corporation of America Arthur Guyton (1919–2003), physiologist, author of Textbook of Medical Physiology ( Oxford ) James Hardy (1918–2003), surgeon who performed the first successful cadaveric lung transplant ( Jackson ) [ 46 ]
Outlying islands. Lists of hospitals in outlying islands of the United States include: Baker Island, none currently, uninhabited. Howland Island, none currently, uninhabited. Jarvis Island, none currently, uninhabited. Johnston Atoll, none currently, underground hospital during World War II (1939–1941) Kingman Reef, none currently, uninhabited.
As of 2018, there were over 985,000 practicing physicians in the United States. 90.6% have an MD degree, and 76% were educated in the United States. 64% were male. 82% were licensed in a medical specialty. 22% held active licenses in two or more states. [8] [10] The percentage of females skews younger. In 2018, 33% of female physicians were ...