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In 1956, Drs. Price, Wintrobe, and Goodman, along with their medical school colleagues, irreverently nicknamed "The Quorum," won approval from the Board of Regents for the construction of a $10-million academic medical center on the university campus. The decision was a watershed since it meant that instruction, clinical activity and patient care would all occur under the umbrella of a unified, modern building. Although ground would not be broken until 1959 and construction itself not begin until 1962, when the University of Utah Medical Center finally opened in 1965 it realized Dr Price's challenge: "If the Medical School is to fulfill its high destiny, it must have a University Hospital." The "Quorum" from left to right: Drs Leonard Jarcho, George E. Cartwright, Maxwell M. Wintrobe, B. Val Jager, Frank H. Tyler, Harold Brown, Lyman R. Fulton, Glen R. Leymaster, and in the rear standing, H. William Harris and Hans H. Hecht. |
