Presidential Physician: Cary Travers Grayson
1878-1938
Presidents
| Theodore Roosevelt | During Presidency: | ? Physician |
| William Taft | During Presidency: | ? Physician |
| Woodrow Wilson | During Presidency: | Primary Physician |
| Woodrow Wilson | During Presidency: | Primary Family's Physician |
| Woodrow Wilson | After Presidency: | Primary Physician |
Education
- Degree: MD
- Medical school: University of the South Medical Department, 1903
Military
- RADM, USN
- Was Lieutenant Commander during T. Roosevelt presidency
Notes
- Delivered Woodrow Wilson's grandson in the White House (Parks, p139).
- No physician-President relationship has been closer than Grayson and Wilson. They met by chance, when Wilson's sister fell and cut her head on the day of Wilson's first inauguration (Smith p.5). Grayson, assigned to the White House as a subordinate physician, stitched her up so efficiently that Mrs. Wilson [the first] later selected him as the President's personal physician (Smith, p.7).
Grayson attended Mrs. Wilson in her final illness, was Wilson's go-between to the fiancee/wife that followed (Smith, pp. 21-22), and was the one who introduced Wilson to his future wife (Parks p.140).
- Grayson recommended Dr. Ross McIntire to be Franklin Roosevelt's presidential physician [MacMahon and Curry, p. 61].
References
- Roos CA. Physicians to the Presidents, and their patients: a bibliography. Bull Med Library Assoc. 1961; 49(3): 291-360.
- Grayson, CT. Woodrow Wilson -- An Intimate Memoir. New York: Holt, Rhinehart, Winston, 1960.
- MacMahon, Edward B.; Curry, Leonard. Medical Cover-Ups in the White House. Washington, DC: Farragut Publishing, 1987.
- Parks, Lillian Rogers. My Thiry Years Backstairs at the White House. NY: Fleet Publishing, 1961. Pages 192-193.
- Smith, Gene. When the Cheering Stopped: the Last Years of Woodrow Wilson. New York: William Morrow, 1964.
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