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Article: Dr. James McGuire, first student at UMass Medical School; at 48
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- March 19, 1997
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Dr. James L. McGuire of Westborough, the first student accepted
to the the University of Massachusetts Medical School, and who helped
preserve funding for the school during a dramatic appearance at the
State House in 1970, died Saturday at Maine Medical Center in
Portland after an apparent heart attack in North Conway, N.H. He was
48.
A rheumatologist, Dr. McGuire was chairman of the department of
medicine at Mt. Auburn Hospital in Cambridge and coauthor of the book
"Living with Rheumatoid Arthritis." He also was widely published in
medical journals.
He was born and raised in Dedham. He graduated from UMass-Amherst
and was selected to become the first student at the UMass Medical
School ...