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8 unusual facts about Bellevue Hospital Center


Bellevue Hospital Center

1919: German spy and saboteur Fritz Joubert Duquesne escapes the hospital prison ward after having feigned paralysis for nearly two years.

David Izenzon

Izenzon had a heart attack and was dead on arrival at Bellevue Hospital in New York City.

F. Curtis Dohan, Jr.

He went on to complete an internship and residency in internal medicine at Bellevue Hospital in New York City, before becoming a research associate at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland.

Frederick Schwatka

Studying law and medicine simultaneously, he was admitted to the Bar association of Nebraska in 1875 and received his medical degree from Bellevue Medical College in New York in the same year.

Harry Sidney Nichols

Nichols continued to publish erotica until 1939, when he was committed to Bellevue Mental Hospital, where he died soon after.

Luis Arenal Bastar

In 1936, he went to New York for a political meeting and stayed until 1937, painting murals at Bellevue Hospital Center and exhibiting his work.

Stanley Sarnoff

After his residency, Sarnoff completed post graduate training at Bellevue Hospital (New York), Beth Israel Hospital (Boston), Mount Sinai Hospital (New York), and Harvard Medical School.

William Mackenzie McLeod

He took his medical course in New York City at Bellevue Hospital Medical College graduating in 1875.



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