Simon Flexner
Simon Flexner was a physician, scientist, asministrator, and professor of experiemental pathology at the University of Pennsylvania. His brother, Abraham, made enough money as an educator to send him back to medical school, and afterward urged him to move on to postgraduate work at Johns Hopkins. Johns Hopkins medical school adopted the German educational structure in the late 19th century in an attempt to establish itself as a beacon of evidence-based medicine and science, so Simon was also indoctrinated into the German system and received training to become a pathologist, bacteriologist, and researcher. His mentor was the iconic Canadian physician and chairman of medicine Sir William Osler, the creator of the residency program system for young physician trainees (note the German hierarchical paradigm here as well). Simon was a favored son, and Osler eventually secured him a faculty appointment in pathology at the University of Pennsylvania.
References
- Lustig, Robert. (2021). Metabolical Chapter 6. Because Big Pharma Was Their Teacher (p. 112). New York, NY: HarperCollins Publishers.