Interview with Nicholas J. Pisacano, February 3, 1986
Project: University of Kentucky Medical Center Oral History Project
Interview Summary
Dr. Nicholas Pisacano (General Practitioner, Department of Medicine; Assistant Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences; Director of Continuing Medical Education at the University of Kentucky Medical Center and Assistant to the Vice President at the Medical Center, 1962-1978) discusses his medical education and background before coming to the UKMC as the first full-time general practitioner. Dr. Pisacano reflects on the early years of the UKMC as a new and exciting time and he speaks highly about the community medicine dept., the first in the country. He also discusses his role in the creation of family practice as a specialty and explains his philosophy of family practice being the foundation for all other specialties. He also shares a proposal for how physicians could care for indigents.Interview Accession
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Academic medical centers--Kentucky--Lexington Deuschle, Kurt W. Family medicine Health facilities--Kentucky--Lexington Medicine--Kentucky--Lexington Morris, Alvin L., 1927- Pellegrino, Edmund D., 1920- Physicians--Kentucky--Lexington Pisacano, Nicholas, J. Pisacano, Nicholas, J.--Interviews Poor--Health and hygiene Poor--Medical care Social medicine University of Kentucky University of Kentucky. Medical Center Willard, William R., 1908-Interview Rights
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Pisacano, Nicholas J. Interview by Richard C. Smoot. 03 Feb. 1986. Lexington, KY: Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.
Pisacano, N.J. (1986, February 03). Interview by R. C. Smoot. University of Kentucky Medical Center Oral History Project. Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries, Lexington.
Pisacano, Nicholas J., interview by Richard C. Smoot. February 03, 1986, University of Kentucky Medical Center Oral History Project, Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.
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