Success for Half

Abstract

When Dr. Martin Randolph came to Danbury, a small city in the southwestern corner of Connecticut, in 1948, the medical establishment there was ill prepared for this young, energetic, academic pediatrician. In this former “hat city”—so named because a large proportion of America’s hats were made there in the early twentieth century—general practitioners practiced everything from pediatrics to surgery. Randolph was a different breed—the first board certified pediatrician in Danbury—who continued his research on new treatments and vaccines while maintaining a busy private practice out of his home office [1].