Article: DR. FLOYD ATKINS; MENDED HEARTS, INSPIRED MINDS; AT 59

Dr. Floyd L. Atkins Jr., who mentored and inspired hundreds of medical students and hundreds more young people as a scoutmaster and basketball coach, died Saturday of a brain tumor at Tippett Home, a hospice care home in Needham. Dr. Atkins was 59 and lived in Westwood.

A cardiologist, Dr. Atkins was for 18 years chief of cardiology at Lemuel Shattuck Hospital in Jamaica Plain, a beloved figure to patients, students, and staff.

Shattuck, a teaching hospital associated with Tufts University's School of Medicine, where Dr. Atkins taught, renamed its intensive care unit after him in October, citing his "dedicated service and compassionate care."

"The students literally adored him," Dr. ...

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