Bestselling author Stephen Fried explores Dr. Benjamin Rush, the “American Hippocrates” and hero of medical care for mental illness and addiction, whose crucial role as a Founding Father and writer on racial, gender, and religious freedom is now being recognized.
Rush edited Common Sense, signed the Declaration of Independence, and served as confidante and doctor to Benjamin Franklin, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and John Adams. Jefferson made him medical consultant for Meriwether Lewis and William Clark. Rush also brokered the twilight peace in the friendship of Jefferson and Adams.
Sign language interpretation will be provided at this program.
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