Dr. Herschell Lee Hamilton became known as the 'Battle Surgeon' and the 'Dog-Bite Doctor,' because he attended to foot soldiers of the Civil Rights Movement in Birmingham, Alabama. No patient was ever turned away from Hamilton’s office because of an inability to pay. His most famous patients included Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Rev. Fred […]
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