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Abstract
Frank H. Krusen, MD, was arguably the most influential member of the small group of
physicians who began in 1938 a long and difficult struggle to win acceptance of physical
medicine and rehabilitation as a medical specialty. The struggle was aided immeasurably
in 1943 when a millionaire philanthropist, M. Bernard Baruch, financed the establishment
of the Baruch Committee on Physical Medicine. Dr. Krusen became the Director-Secretary
of the Committee and began to keep a daily diary in which he recorded his activities
and those of his colleagues in their quest for recognition of PM&R as a specialized
field of medical practice. That recognition came in 1947 with the establishment of
the American Board of Physical Medicine, but Dr. Krusen continued his diary through
1967. In 1988, 15 years after his death, Dr. Krusen's family donated a copy of the
diary to the History of Medicine Library of the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN. The
gift coincided with the American Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation's
celebration of its 50th anniversary. This article, the first of four, introduces the
reader to Dr. Krusen and describes his early years and his professional development
in the years before 1943.
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Article info
Publication history
Accepted:
January 15,
1997
Received:
September 6,
1996
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