✍ Scribed by Evan Calkilzs
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DECEMBER 2, 1963, the members of the Rheumatic Disease field 0 lost one of their most active and esteemed colleagues.
Walter Bauer was born in Crystal Falls, Michigan. Educated in local schools and at the University of Michigan, he showed in early youth, the voracious curiosity, strength of character and determination to achieve long range goals which we, his subsequent students and associates, have known and respected.
During Medical School days at The University of Michigan he was greatly stimulated by the brilliant young investigator, Newburg, whose picture subsequently headed the string of pictures of his teachers which he kept over his desk. Restless with what midwestern medicine was able to provide at that time, he obtained an internship in medicine at The Long Island College Hospital on the service headed by Dr. Luther Warren, then one of the most dynamic and respected teachers in greater New York City.
One of Dr. Warren's chief medical interests was pernicious anemia and large numbers of patients with this disease came to the hospital from a wide area for transfusions and symptomatic treatment. We are told that Dr. Bauer became greatly discouraged at this influx of patients for whom he could provide nothing but symptomatic care. To revive his spirits, as well as those of another resident, Dr. Warren gave them each a trip around the country to see what was being done elsewhere. The other resident returned to say that he was interested in all he saw, but that nothing compared with The Long Island College Hospital. Dr. Bauer allegedly returned stating that he saw many things which were better than what was going on in Long Island, and he was quitting! What he found, apparently, was a dynamic young man at The Massachusetts General Hospital named Joseph Aub, who was looking for an outstanding physician to be appointed to the newly
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