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Five Generations of the DAVIS FAMILY at the MEDICAL COLLEGE OF VIRGINIA 1881- 2009

Five Generations of the DAVIS FAMILY at the MEDICAL COLLEGE OF VIRGINIA 1881- 2009. This is the first of the Davis family to attend MCV, Dr. John Gibson Davis, at the time of his medical school career in the early 1880’s. His friends called him J.G. His brother also graduated in 1894.

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Five Generations of the DAVIS FAMILY at the MEDICAL COLLEGE OF VIRGINIA 1881- 2009

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  1. Five Generations of the DAVIS FAMILY at the MEDICAL COLLEGE OF VIRGINIA 1881- 2009

  2. This is the first of the Davis family to attend MCV, Dr. John Gibson Davis, at the time of his medical school career in the early 1880’s. His friends called him J.G. His brother also graduated in 1894. Dr. J. G. Davis was part of the first medical school class to take the Virginia state medical board examinations.

  3. Dr. J.G. was one of the earliest scholarship students at MCV. This is the letter awarding him money to attend MCV. It reads: Dean’s Office Medical College of Virginia Richmond, July 22nd 1884 Dear Sir, I had expected that your certificate of proficiency had been sent to you months ago and I never found out until yesterday that it had not been done. I had directed it to be sent directly after the Commencement, but through some strange over-sight it has not been done. You will observe that no provision has been published for state students. The same pecuniary advantages how…

  4. Scholarship letter continued… … ever will be extended to you as before, and while no publication has been made to that effect, the Medical College of Virginia will be always willing to give a helping hand to any meritorious young man who applies to us properly recommended who is unable to pay regular fees. The catalogue will be out in a few days, when it will be sent to you. I hope to have the pleasure of seeing you back again next session. Yours truly, M. L. James M.D. P.S. Should the catalogue fail to reach you let us know. M.L.J.

  5. To prove that you had paid to attend each class, lecture cards were presented at the beginning of each. This is one from the 1883-1884 school year.

  6. When he first started practice, Dr. J.G. Davis drove a horse and buggy to make house calls as a General Practitioner. Early in the 1900’s he bought a Model T and used it for the remainder of his career to make calls both night and day. He worked up until his death at the age of 89, becoming the oldest practicing physician in the Roanoke Valley.

  7. Dr. J.G. Davis at his desk late in his career

  8. Dr. J.G. Davis’s obituary in the Roanoke Times February 2, 1953

  9. All five of Dr. J.G. Davis’s sons went to MCV and graduated as MD’s, including my great-grandfather Dr. Paul Davis. Their story was featured in the Roanoke Times in 1931.

  10. Dr. Paul Davis during the time of his medical education, approximately 1913.

  11. Dr. Paul Davis and some of his graduating medical class in 1915 (arrow points to Dr. Paul Davis)

  12. A copy of Virginia’s Medical Board Exam that Dr. Paul Davis took in 1915 • It included the following questions: • What do you understand by the terms, a) Heart block, b) Argyll Robertson pupil and c) Of what disease is the latter one of the diagnostic symptoms? • Give minimum and maximum doses of opium and its three principal derivatives, with physiological action. • What physical signs are to be found in pulmonary tuberculosis? • Differentiate kidney or ureteral stone from acute appendicitis.

  13. Arrow points to Dr. Paul Davis Picture taken in France during his time as an Army Medic Dr. Paul Davis served in the Army Medical Corps during World War One and was stationed in France.

  14. After the war, Dr. Paul Davis returned to Roanoke, VA as a practicing OB/GYN. During WWII, the business of delivering babies would prove to be too busy, at which point Dr. Davis specialized in General Surgery. He continued to operate at Lewis-Gale hospital in Roanoke, VA until late in his life and served as Chief of Surgery there for much of his career. Even today, a portrait of Dr. Paul Davis hangs in the front hallway of Lewis-Gale Hospital.

  15. Dr. Paul Davis with his daughter and my great aunt, Pauline Nichols Davis, who would later become one of the first women to graduate with an MD from MCV. People who knew her well called her Teenie.

  16. The Roanoke Times September 8, 1938 The headline reads: Eighth Member of Family Enters Medical College of Virginia Granddaughter, Daughter and Niece of Doctors First Woman in Family to Take Up Profession Dr. Pauline Davis was one of 8 women in her graduating medical school class. Up until 2009, she had remained the only female in our family to graduate from MCV with an MD.

  17. “It was not my idea for her to take up the study of medicine,” her father, Dr. Paul Davis, wrote during the summer. “I have discouraged the idea from the beginning, but she seems firmly convinced that this is the only thing which will make her life happy.” -Reported in the Roanoke Times, 1938

  18. After graduating from MCV in 1942, Dr. Pauline Davis went on to be a radiologist at the Veterans hospital in Salem, VA. She had four children, three of whom became physicians, while the fourth earned a Ph.D in biophysics from Harvard. Two graduated from MCV, including my cousin who inspired me to be a doctor, Dr. Paul Davis Carmichael.

  19. Dr. Paul Andrew Carmichael graduated from MCV in 1975 as a general surgeon. He practiced in Roanoke, VA for 30 years and is currently working in Turlock, CA. He served as Chief of Surgery and Chief of Staff for Roanoke Memorial Hospital. He was also appointed to the Board of Directors of Carilion Health System and was voted as the Roanoke Valley’s Best Surgeon (as featured in the RoanokerMagazine). He also let me scrub into his surgeries as a high school and college student, thereby cementing my interest in medicine.

  20. Not everyone in the Davis clan who became a physician went to MCV. I’ll be the 15th, but there were a couple black sheep that went to Duke. Plus, there were doctors who married into the Davis family, but I’m only discussing blood relatives. The list would be too long otherwise. This was an article in the Roanoke Times in the mid 1970’s, right after Dr. Paul Carmichael, Dr. Pauline Davis’s son, graduated from MCV.

  21. This was the most current list of Davis physicians in the mid 1970’s.

  22. And now… they can add me to the list. There could be more of us on the way. Dr. Gordon Carmichael’s kids are in high school and want to go to medical school… no matter what I tell them. 

  23. Green boxes represent people who graduated from the Medical College of Virginia and the date indicates when Of note: Dr. J.G. Davis’s brother Dr. Frederick Ferdon Davis also graduated MCV in 1894.

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