Article: New Executive: Set to improve vital signs; Dean of Mount Sinai's medical school taking charge at difficult time.(Profiles)(Dr. kenneth Davis )

Byline: mary sisson

When dr. kenneth Davis was a 7-year-old boy growing up in Syosset, L.I., his parents took him to the doctor with a stomach complaint. He needed emergency surgery.

They drove him to Mount Sinai Hospital in Manhattan, becoming frantic when they got caught in a traffic jam. Dr. Davis remembers the mask going over his face in surgery, then waking up later. Everyone told him he was OK, but he didn't feel that way-he reacted badly to the anesthesia and kept throwing up.

It wasn't perhaps the best introduction to Mount Sinai, but that unfortunate beginning has blossomed into a lifelong relationship with the institution. In 1973, ...

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