Louis Gdalman
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Louis Gdalman
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Louis Gdalman (1910–1995) was the director of Pharmacy and Central Services at Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center in Chicago. He is notable for starting the first poison control center in the United States in 1953 along with Edward Press. This effort was driven by 400+ children dying across the country every year from eating high-dose medicine that looked and tasted like candy. Many of these deaths would have been preventable if people had better access to information about antidotes, p
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Pharmacist and founder of Poison Control Centers
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Gdalman
date created:
2018-06-18T04:02:08Z
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2024-09-09T19:56:01Z
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