Donald Guthrie (physician)
Donald Guthrie was an American surgeon, best known for establishing Guthrie Clinic in Sayre, Pennsylvania in 1910. One of nations earliest multispecialty group medical practices, Dr. Guthrie based the formation of the clinic that bears his name on the principles he learned while a surgical resident at Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota.
Dr. Guthrie was born into a prominent family in WilkesBarre, Pennsylvania. His father, George W. Guthrie, MD, was a prominent physician and surgeon in Northeast Pennsylvania. His mother, Sarah Hollenbeck Wright Guthrie, was from a pioneering industrial family, tracing her ancestry to Matthias Hollenbeck, one of the oldest families in Bradford County, Pennsylvania. Donald Guthrie received his early education in schools in WilkesBarre received a degree in philosophy from Yale University in 1901 followed by a medical degree in 1905 from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. After Dr. Guthries death, a Donald Guthrie Professorship in Surgery was created in his honor at both Yale University and the University of Pennsylvania.
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