Alan Blum is a professor of Family Medicine at the University of Alabama School of Medicine at Tuscaloosa He and I have met in cyberspace through our mutual friend, Dr. Dileep Bal of Kapaa, Hawaii. I was researching the great neurosurgeon, Wilder Penfield, when I came across an article by Alan Blum in the Canadian Medical Association Journal in 2011. "A Bedside Conversation with Wilder Penfield."
Blum writes, "Recently, I came across six prescription-size pages of handwritten notes
from an hour-long conversation I had with the [Montreal] Institute’s founder, Dr.
Wilder Penfield on the morning of Apr. 3, 1976, when he was a patient in
the Ross Pavillion at the Royal Vic. Having hoped to meet him since the
start of my training, I stopped off at my room after completing
night-call and sign-out to muster the courage to introduce myself and to
pick up my copy of The Torch, his novel about Hippocrates’ battle to lay the foundations of medicine."
Among other things, Alan Blum is a talented illustrator. We have featured his drawings on Cell 2 Soul in 2010. His recollection of meeting Penfield shortly before the latter's death is moving and worth reading.
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