One of the four founders of Cleveland Clinic, George Crile was the first surgeon to perform a successful direct blood transfusion. Crile graduated from Wooster Medical College, a predecessor ...
Founders GEORGE W. CRILE, FRANK E. BUNTS, WILLIAM E. LOWER, and JOHN PHILLIPS, served in the LAKESIDE UNIT in World War I, and fashioned the Cleveland Clinic on the military model of cooperative ...