Flippen, James H.
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- In this oral history, Stanford alumnus James H. Flippen (MD 1945) recounts family stories and the journey that led him to attend medical school at Stanford University. He relates details of student life at the Stanford School of Medicine when it was located in San Francisco and recalls incidents from his residency at Stanford. He briefly describes his fellowship at Boston Children’s Hospital where he learned the replacement transfusion technique for treating hemolytic anemia of the newborn, which he later taught to physicians on the West Coast. He also provides an account of his service in the United States Navy when he was assigned to a clinic for treating tropical skin diseases located at the Tanforan Race Track in San Bruno, California. Flippen describes his work as a private practitioner of pediatrics in Palo Alto and his work as a clinical professor in the pediatric cardiology clinic at Stanford. He recounts his role in leasing land from Stanford in cooperation with other physicians in order to build a cluster of medical offices near Stanford hospital known as the Medical Plaza. He describes his work as the regional chairman of the Accident Prevention Committee of the American Academy of Pediatrics and his advocacy of legislation requiring that cars be equipped with seatbelts, that homes have smoke detectors, and that teenagers who drove while intoxicated receive stiff penalties. He concludes the interview by discussing his determination of the cause of a tragic drowning incident, a phenomenon he branded “silent drowning.”
Description
| Type of resource | mixed material |
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| Date created | December 15, 2016 |
Creators/Contributors
| Author | Flippen, James H. | |
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| Contributing author | Marine-Street, Natalie | |
| Publisher | Stanford Historical Society |
Subjects
| Subject | James H. Flippen |
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| Subject | Stanford Historical Society |
| Subject | oral histories |
| Subject | interviews |
| Subject | Stanford University > alumni |
| Subject | Stanford University > School of Medicine |
| Subject | pediatric cardiology |
| Subject | physicians |
| Subject | California > legislation > accident prevention |
Bibliographic information
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| Location | https://purl.stanford.edu/yb644pt2832 |
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- The materials are open for research use and may be used freely for non-commercial purposes with an attribution. For commercial permission requests, please contact the Stanford University Archives (universityarchives@stanford.edu).
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- Copyright © The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University. All rights reserved.
Preferred citation
- Preferred Citation
Flippen, James H. (2016).
Oral History. Stanford Historical Society Oral History Program Interviews (SC0932).
Department of Special Collections & University Archives, Stanford University Libraries,
Stanford, Calif. Available at: https://purl.stanford.edu/yb644pt2832
Collection
Stanford Historical Society Oral History Program interviews, 1999-2022
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