ERNEST BEUTLER

our increasingly specialized world
that we will see in the future a
medical scientist whose intellect,
curiosity, insight, and industry
will be displayed over such a
broad landscape of scientific and
medical problems, ranging from
the identification that nonanemic
women with iron deficiency are
symptomatic and require therapy,
the appropriate application of
platelet transfusion therapy, the
development of a curative drug for
leukemia, and the cloning of the
gene used to develop the product
that provided optimal therapy for
a lysosomal disorder, Gaucher
disease. I, as so many others among
his contemporaries, learned much
from having the extraordinarily
good fortune to be in his universe
as a student, colleague, and friend.
Ernest Beutler was the preeminent
research hematologist of his day.
Ernest Beutler
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