Dr. George Goodfellow is best known as the physician who treated Morgan and Virgil Earp after the OK Corral gunfight. He was a close friend of the Earps, Doc Holliday and John Clum (although he also worked on several Cow-boys when they were sick or hurt). But his medical accomplishments went well beyond that.
He was considered the foremost authority on gunshot wounds, especially to the

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