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The good doctor

The Tarrant County Medical Society honors Thomas Lipscomb ’61 with the Gold-Headed Cane Award.

The good doctor

The Tarrant County Medical Society honors Thomas Lipscomb ’61 with the Gold-Headed Cane Award.

The Gold-Headed Cane Award, presented every year by the Tarrant County Medical Society to one of its 2,200 members, is one of the highest honors bestowed on a Fort Worth area physician. This year it went to retired radiologist Thomas Lipscomb ’61.

Lipscomb comes from a long line of physicians. He planned to follow his father into the field of orthopedics when he came to TCU in 1957. But during his internship at the University of Iowa, he discovered radiology.

“I fell in love with it,” he says, “and I haven’t looked back.” Lipscomb kept up with emerging technology, and became a leader in the field. “I enjoyed being a consultant to physicians. They would tell me about their difficult cases, and I would help them solve problems. I really got to dabble in all fields,” he explains.

At the conclusion of his 31-year medical career, Lipscomb left a superior radiology department at Cook Children’s Medical Center, which he had helped establish. “There are so many good doctors who do wonderful jobs. It’s a high honor to know that your peers think highly of you,” he says.

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