This author (Michael Egnor), during his own time as a medical student, got to shadow him for a month. His rounds took a little longer while they stopped to play with the babies. Dr. Egnor describes him as "a great guy—funny, hardworking, considerate. A real gentleman."
Dr. Goodrich became the Chief of Pediatric Neurosurgery at Montefiore Medical Center in New York for 30 years, treated thousands of kids, and trained generations of students. He specialized in reconstructing kids' skull deformities and pioneered reliable separation of Siamese twins joined at the brain.
It turns out that he was one of the wealthiest people in NYC as heir to the Goodrich Tire fortune. But he spent his life working 80 hours per week, operating on poor kids from the Bronx.
He died Monday from coronavirus.
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