Michael Field ( 1933 &ndash; 2014 ) was an American gastroenterologist celebrated for his work on diarrhea . Born in London and raised in Hamburg until the age of 5 , Field and his family fled Germany the day before Kristallnacht and relocated to Pueblo , Colorado . He obtained his medical doctorate from Boston University Medical School in 1959 , after first completing a degree in English literature at the University of Chicago , and conducted postdoctoral research at Harvard Medical School before joining the faculty as associate professor of medicine . Field returned to the University of Chicago as professor in 1977 , and in 1984 was appointed chief of gastroenterology and professor of medicine at Columbia University where he remained until his retirement in 2001
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Michael Field (physician)