Died June 30, 1947. Address per 1935 Arizona State Medical Directory: Box 2066, Tucson.
See History of Arizona medicine; collections of Orville Harry Brown, M.D. [AHSL Special Collections WZ 70 AA7 H673]: middle name as “Atey”
J Am Med Assoc, Oct 1933; 101: 1244: Health in the Byrd Expedition. -- Members of Admiral Richard E. Byrd's second expedition to the antarctic region, which was to set out from Boston, September 25, all received thorough physical examinations under the direction of Dr. Joel E. Goldthwait, Boston, and Dr. Guy O. Shirey, recently of Tucson, Ariz., surgeon of the expedition. Members of the first expedition in 1928 were examined in New York and complete physical records were placed on file with the surgeon of the expedition, including blood grouping in case transfusion were necessary in an emergency. The expedition returned without the loss of a man. Fourteen men who went on the first trip have been selected for the second.
J Am Med Assoc, Nov 1947; 135: 591: Guy Otey Shirey, Williams, Ariz. ; University of Tennessee College of Medicine, Memphis, 1914; served during World War I ; accompanied Admiral Richard E. Byrd to the South Pole on the second Antarctic Expedition; formerly district surgeon for the Southern Pacific Railroad, serving on the staff of Southern Pacific Hospital in Tucson ; died in Fort Whipple June 30, aged 56, of cirrhosis of the liver.
See History of Arizona medicine; collections of Orville Harry Brown, M.D. [AHSL Special Collections WZ 70 AA7 H673]: middle name as “Atey”
J Am Med Assoc, Oct 1933; 101: 1244: Health in the Byrd Expedition. -- Members of Admiral Richard E. Byrd's second expedition to the antarctic region, which was to set out from Boston, September 25, all received thorough physical examinations under the direction of Dr. Joel E. Goldthwait, Boston, and Dr. Guy O. Shirey, recently of Tucson, Ariz., surgeon of the expedition. Members of the first expedition in 1928 were examined in New York and complete physical records were placed on file with the surgeon of the expedition, including blood grouping in case transfusion were necessary in an emergency. The expedition returned without the loss of a man. Fourteen men who went on the first trip have been selected for the second.
J Am Med Assoc, Nov 1947; 135: 591: Guy Otey Shirey, Williams, Ariz. ; University of Tennessee College of Medicine, Memphis, 1914; served during World War I ; accompanied Admiral Richard E. Byrd to the South Pole on the second Antarctic Expedition; formerly district surgeon for the Southern Pacific Railroad, serving on the staff of Southern Pacific Hospital in Tucson ; died in Fort Whipple June 30, aged 56, of cirrhosis of the liver.
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History of Arizona medicine; collections of Orville Harry Brown, M.D. [AHSL Special Collections WZ 70 AA7 H673]
volume 6, page(s) 97,98
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