Further Reflections on the lives of Erie County Physicians
Monday Sep 15th, 2025
Thomas F. Nolan Jr. M.D. Gentleman Surgeon
I was once asked, given my Irish heritage, whether I was a “poet” or a “brawler”! “A poet” I replied, cautioning that even the most soft-spoken Hibernian could become a scrapper under circumstances endemic to the “race”. Yet, there are true Irish gentlemen and in July 1978, on my first day on the surgical unit at Saint Vincent, I had the pleasure of making the acquaintance of just such a fellow.
