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Article: DR. MORRIS SIMON, RADIOLOGIST, AT 79; HIS CARE, DEVICES LED TO BREAKTHROUGHS
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- January 20, 2005
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Dr. Morris Simon, a world-renowned pulmonary radiologist whose
genius for inventions and compassion for patients led to a device
credited with saving thousands of people from deadly blood clots and
embolisms, died Monday, apparently of a heart attack, while brushing
snow from his car parked outside his Boston home.
Dr. Simon, a clinician at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and
a professor of radiology for more than 45 years, observed his 79th
birthday Sunday.
With his creative genius, Dr. Simon saw how he could reach to the
heavens and space science to help humanity. In the early 1970s, with
funding from the National Institutes of Health, Dr. Simon invented a
device that became known as ...