In the history of medicine, Tenley Albright is one of the names that keeps returning.
The record lists Tenley Albright as American figure skater and surgeon.
Tenley Albright was born at Newton Centre in 1935. Her recorded nationality is United States. She trained at Harvard Medical School and Radcliffe College.
Antibiotics, imaging and the randomised trial defined twentieth-century medicine; evidence replaced authority as the standard.
The test of medical work is whether practice changed, not whether the argument was elegant.
That the work was done from United States matters: hospitals, training and research funding are unevenly distributed, and they decide which questions can be asked.
