‘Nobody Even Knows My Name:’ John Tarpley considers his career, and life
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Levi Watkins Jr., MD, the first Black student to be admitted to and graduate from Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, was also the first surgeon to implant an automatic defibrillator in a patient.
Yet for Watkins, who died in 2015, doing for others was more important than any career achievement, his longtime friend John Tarpley, MD, noted Oct. 5 during the 25th annual Levi Watkins Jr., MD Lecture in Light Hall.
Tarpley and Watkins met in medical school. In July 1970, as they began th
Yet for Watkins, who died in 2015, doing for others was more important than any career achievement, his longtime friend John Tarpley, MD, noted Oct. 5 during the 25th annual Levi Watkins Jr., MD Lecture in Light Hall.
Tarpley and Watkins met in medical school. In July 1970, as they began th
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