King Faisal International Prize for Medicine

[KMATTOX at aol.com]

In a message dated 1/30/2008 8:20:30 A.M. Central Standard Time,  
Rgross at harthosp.org writes:

Having  said that, it is my pleasure to relay some very exciting news about 
two very  special people:  Drs. Trunkey and Pruitt are this year's 
co-recipients of  the King Faisal International Prize for Medicine for 2008.  Please refer 
 to the following like for more information:
_http://www.kff.com/english/kfip/KFIPWinnersCurrent.html_ 
(http://www.kff.com/english/kfip/KFIPWinnersCurrent.html)   

King Faisal was one of the most visionary forward thinking heads of state  
that I have ever known.   Both he and his widow were committed to  quality 
health care.    Conceived in the early 1970s, at a time  that there was not even 
one traffic light in Riyadh, the King Faisal Specialist  Hospital and Research 
Center began.   Originally with only 200 beds,  it was the medical facility of 
final resort when it opened in the late  1970s.   It had facilities for 
trauma, burns, cancer, vascular,  cardiac, obstetric, pediatric, metabolic, and many 
other very complex  diseases.     It is ironic that it was not quite ready 
when  King Faisal sustained a fatal injury in the mid 1970s.    He was  taken 
Riyadh's Central (Shamazi) Hospital.     It is  appropriate that both Dr. 
Trunkey and Dr. Pruitt receive an award, the namesake  of which embodied the very 
essence of the life work of these two medical  giants.   Congratulations.     
 
Kenneth L. Mattox, MD






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