In this interview, William B. Youmans, Ph.D., M.D., talks about his education and how he decided to pursue a career in physiology and get a medical degree at the University of Oregon Medical School. He looks back on his long career and discusses his discovery of phenylephrine in the treatment of paroxysmal supraventricular tachycardia.
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