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Article: DR. FLOYD ATKINS; MENDED HEARTS, INSPIRED MINDS; AT 59
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- April 4, 2003
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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