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