George Crile Jr.

Dr. George Washington Crile, Jr. was known as Barney to distinguish him from his father, also a doctor named George Washington Crile. Following his father's footsteps, he graduated from Yale University, then earned an M.D. from Harvard Medical School in 1929. He did residency at the Cleveland Clinic, then joined the surgical staff in 1937. During World War II, he served in the United States Navy with a team of enlistees from the Cleveland Clinic. He saw many risky radical …