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HematologyTweetstory #25: Dr. Walter Clement Noel, the first patient clearly described with what is now known as sickle cell disease (SCD). I published this fascinating & tragic story in 2010 @MayoProceedings following @USPS release of a stamp about SCD./1
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Credit is due to Todd L. Savitt, PhD, a medical historian @EastCarolina, who did the legwork flying to Chicago & Grenada in 1987 & identified Dr. Noel from sketchy details in a 1910 case report. He published his findings in a paper in @JAMA_current in 1989./2 
In a 2010 paper in #JNMA @NationalMedAssn, Dr. Savitt described just how he tracked Noel's history down. It required both persistence and serendipity. Savitt has published extensively about race and medicine - the intersection of which is clearly part of this story, too. /3
