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A Family of Health Care Providers

This family has more doctor and nursing affiliation than any other as recorded in history. Doctor John C. Jenkins was born in 1898 in Savannah, Georgia.   His father was a doctor, and actually delivered him in the family home.   John excelled through school and went to college to study medicine at age 16.   At age 19 he was introduced at graduation as Doctor John Calhoun Jenkins, something he was very proud of.   Doctor Jenkins married and had 4 children, 3 boys and 1 girl.   In 1950 Dr. Jenkins went on to study in the specialty of obstetrics and gynecology.   His love of children drove him toward the desire to deliver babies.   Related:   What is Social Workers’ Role in Hospitals? Doctor Jenkins had a brother by the name of Bradley, and while 10 years his junior, Bradley started his working career a little later in life.   Bradley attended medical school at the age of 22,   and started practicing medicine in 1934, when he opened his own practice, later marrying his nu