Goodfellow treated Virgil Earp and Morgan Earp after they were wounded in the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral . His testimony later helped absolve the Earps and Doc Holliday of murder charges for having shot and killed three outlaw cowboys during the gunfight . He treated Virgil again when he was maimed in an ambush and rushed to Morgan 's side when he was mortally wounded by an assassin . Goodfellow left Tombstone in 1889 and established a successful practice in Tucson before moving to San Francisco in 1899 and opening a medical office there . He lost his practice and all of his personal belongings in the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and subsequently returned to the Southwest , where he became the Chief Surgeon for the Southern Pacific Railroad in Mexico . He fell ill in 1910 and died later that year in Los Angeles
1906 San Francisco earthquake
1906 San Francisco earthquake
George E. Goodfellow