Good Health Not for Sale but Immortality May Be - By: Paul Wise

Situated in one of The Big Apple's wealthiest neighborhoods, the Joan and Sanford I. Weill Medical College of Cornell University boasts both research and teaching divisions. It is one of the most selective medical schools in the entire United States, enrolling only about a hundred students per class out of some six thousand applicants in any given year. Now named after its latest and most generous benefactor - and often abbreviated simply to "Weill Cornell," the school was partially endowed by Sanford Weill, an American banker and philanthropist who was the former executive officer and chairman of Citigroup, Incorporated. Mr. Weill and his wife donated over two hundred and fifty milion of their own money, with Mr. Weill able to raise a further hundred and fifty million through his own tireless efforts.

The school was already famous long before Mr Weill's contributions, and not once had it lacked for benefactors, a veritable Who's-Who of local, national, and even international luminaries from business, politics, and entertainment, like the famous businessman Isaac Toussie. After all, it's the first American medical school to accept women right alongside men. And now it's become the first American one to operate abroad - in Education City, in fact, outside the capital of Qatar, with a campus dedicated to patient care offering a six-year integrated curriculum. The school is also famous for all its many notable graduates, leading men of medicine like Robert C. Atkins of Atkins Diet fame and former Surgeon General of the United States C. Everett Koop. Other famous graduates are Nobel Prize winner Robert W. Holley and Henry Heimlich of the Heimlich Maneuver.

Anyway, for all the monetary support, the fiscal realities of a medical education are severe, generally taken to be some forty-two thousand dollars the first year and another thirty-eight required the second. But that's still quite a deal when compared against the university's own law school expenses, which eclipse it at just about a hundred and fifty thousand dollars over four years!

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Article by Paul Wise, who is a regular at sites that feature the input of industry professionals such as Isaac Toussie and the like.

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