Arizona Medical Board record: Thomas W. Woodman MD; license number: 1014; licensed date: 10/08/1926; medical school: RUSH MED COLL OF RUSH UNIV, Chicago, Illinois; graduation date: 03/20/1924; area of interest: general practice.
See History of Arizona medicine; collections of Orville Harry Brown, M.D. [AHSL Special Collections WZ 70 AA7 H673].
JARRETT PB. Ariz Med. 1963 May;20:44A-45A. Thomas W. WOODMAN M.D. 1901-1963
J Am Med Assoc, Jan 1934; 102: 137: The Maricopa County Medical Society has formed a library board with the responsibility of developing and maintaining the medical library opened by the society in Phoenix early in 1932. Members of the board are Drs. Orville H. Brown, chairman ; George E. Shields, secretary-treasurer; Fred G. Holmes, Louis C. B. Baldwin and Thomas W. Woodman. Dr. William Warner Watkins was elected librarian. At present an attendant is in the library from 11 a. m. to 3 p. m. and the hours will be lengthened later. The library has available about ninety medical journals and several hundred books.
JAMA. 1963;184(11):914: Woodman, Thomas Winfrey, Phoenix, Ariz.; Rush Medical College, Chicago, 1925; past-president of the Maricopa County Medical Society; certified by the National Board of Medical Examiners; member of the Southwestern Surgical Congress; fellow of the International College of Surgeons and American College of Surgeons; veteran of World War I [see "Additional Information" below]; won the Bronze Star for duty during World War II; associated with Memorial and St. Joseph's hospitals and the Good Samaritan Hospital, where he died Feb 10, aged 61, of myocardial infarction.
Additional Information:
Thomas Winfrey Woodman Sr. was born in Arizona on Feb 26, 1901. He attended Stanford University for two years, entering at the age of 17 (due to grade-school advancement of one year at Osborn School in Phoenix). In 1918 while at Stanford, Woodman joined the Stanford Student Military Training Program. This was the extent of his involvement in World War I. (Contrary to what is stated in his JAMA obituary, he was not a veteran of WWI.)
In or about February 1942 Dr. Woodman offered his service to the Army as a volunteer. He was commissioned as a Major in the Army Air Corps and reported to the Sioux Falls Army Air Base in Sioux Falls, South Dakota in or about June 1942. He departed for European duty from Ft. George Meade, Maryland in very early 1944 and at some point was assigned to the 99th General Hospital. It’s not certain if this occurred when the hospital was in England or after it had moved to France. He was promoted to Lieutenant Colonel in the Medical Corps at that time. Due to informaiton restrictions Woodman didn’t disclose the hospital’s location to his family until it was in Verdun.
It is Dr. Woodman’s family’s understanding that the 99th General Hospital treated many of the casualties of the Battle of the Bulge under Patton, and was located in Belgium at that time. Woodman became Commanding Officer of the 99th and he was awarded the Bronze Star as a result of the hospital either achieving the highest wounded survival rate in the European Theater or having the highest rate of wounded who could be returned to battle (not certain which). Dr. Woodman was promoted to full Colonel at that event and returned to civilian life in late summer of 1945.
Source: Thomas Winfrey Woodman, Jr. (December 1, 2014)