Loyal davis biography

For more than thirty years, in an era less politically correct than ours, Dr. Loyal Davis reigned supreme as chief of surgery at the Northwestern University medical school in Chicago.

Loyal davis biography

He retired in 1963, but stories about him persisted as lively subjects of conversation and amusement, to be told with relish at meetings and dinner parties, not all verifiable and some perhaps apocryphal.

It is said that he kept an enemy list in his office.

He was tyrant in the operating room, terrifying his staff, insisting on having his personal area to scrub, his own gown, and his own gloves. He viewed his interns as nothing more than specks on the horizon. Some remember having to be in the hospital at all hours, not allowed to leave until they obtained permission on the phone to do so from him, from his wife if he was unavailable, or by default from his housekeeper.

He was a good writer, author of the biography of JB Murphy, the flamboyant surgeon of Chicago’s earlier d