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Tufts Medical Center Boston, MA
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Dr. Paul was well respected as a radiologist, a teacher, and a professor.... He taught many students to become great physicians.
After a long illness, Dr. Robert Paul died on December 9, 2007, in Westboro, MA. Born in Austin, Texas, in 1927 to Robert Emmet Paul and Leona May Harrington, he graduated from the Schreiner Military Academy, Kerrville, TX, in 1944. He attended the University of Texas and the University of Houston from 1944 to 1946 and received his medical degree from Baylor University in 1950 and his master of science in radiology from Temple University in 1957. Dr. Paul married Betty Jean Brown on December 9, 1948. He served in the U.S. Air Force and rose to the rank of captain. He also earned his master's degree in radiology from Temple University.
Dr. Paul was a radiologist at Tufts New England Medical Center in Boston from 1957 until 1965. He was a professor of radiology and chairman of the radiology department at Tufts Medical Center from 1965 until 1995 and a member of the faculty at Tufts University Medical School until 2007. He was a member of the American Medical Association, American College of Radiology, the American Roentgen Ray Society, and the Radiological Society of North America.
He was the son of a brilliant MIT chemical engineer who worked for Humble Oil (predecessor to Exxon and Esso). Dr. Paul grew up in Texas and was independent from a very early age. When he graduated from the Schreiner Military Academy at the age of 16, he joined the Merchant Marines and sailed on large Esso tankers throughout the world. In medical school he spent a good deal of time winning at pool to pay for his medical books. The U.S. Army Air Force paid for his tuition in exchange for his military service. He rose to the rank of captain in the air force during the Korean War. He would frequently be on his feet 72 hours at a time because there were so few doctors available, many having been sent to Korea to Mobile Army Surgical Hospitals.
Dr. Paul heard of a remarkable doctor who had fled Nazi Germany, Dr. Alice Ettinger. She had brought roentgen ray technology to Tufts New England Medical Center and was its chief of radiology. Dr. Ettinger became Dr. Paul's mentor, and she worked with him to expand the field of radiology in medicine and encouraged him to publish his knowledge. She appointed him associate chief of radiology when he was just 31, the youngest ever in this country. Later, in 1965, at the age of 38, he became the chief of radiology at Tufts Medical Center. Dr. Paul was well respected as a radiologist, a teacher, and a professor at the Tufts School of Medicine. He taught many students to become great physicians. He always handled every problem in a confident, calm, and reassuring manner.
Bob and his wife, Betty, loved to ski, and they spent nearly every weekend they could at their home in North Conway, New Hampshire, skiing with the family. Even at the age of 77, he climbed Tuckerman's Ravine with a 55-lb (25-kg) pack and his skis on his back.
Dr. Paul is survived by his daughter Victoria L. McEnroe of Northboro, MA; his son Robert E. Paul, III, of Southboro, MA; his three grandchildren Kelly, Ashley, and Alex; and two great grandchildren Katelyn and Kyle. Bob Paul was an exceptional husband, father, professor, and doctor.
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