White male doctors’ portraits to be taken down from honored spot at hospital

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Of the 31 portraits of famous doctors that adorn the walls of the Louis Bornstein Family Amphitheater at Brigham and Women’s Hospital — a Harvard Medical School teaching hospital — 30 are of white men. The other portrait is of an Asian male doctor, the Boston Globe reported.

But that’s apparently too many men — particularly white men — in one prestigious location.

Therefore all 31 portraits — some of which have hung in the amphitheater for decades — will be removed and rehung in scattered spots around the hospital, the Globe reported.

Dr. Harvey Cushing — who invented many brain surgery techniques and worked as the Brigham’s chief surgeon from 1912 to 1932 — was among the first doctors to get a portrait, the paper said.