Frank Reflections: OF AN ACADEMIC SURGEON

More than sixty years ago, author Dr. Frank G. Moody began treating patients as a second-year medical student at Dartmouth Medical School—Mary Hitchcock Clinic in Hanover, New Hampshire. He was an academic surgeon for the next fifty-five years.

In his memoir, Frank Reflections, he offers both a personal and professional overview of his life—his birth in 1928 in New Hampshire; his childhood during the Great Depression; his extensive schooling, both academic and medical; his military service;...