Dr. Edwin Quick

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Posted By: Connie Swearingen-Volunteer (email)
Date: 8/4/2014 at 11:51:22

Dr. Edwin Quick, retired physician Edwin Sanford Quick, who helped induce advances in heart medicine to Riverside, died yesterday of prostate cancer at his Riverside home. He was 83.

He was one of the finest gentlemen you'll ever meet, and in 1960s and 70s he was recnized as possibly the best radiologist in Riverside, pediacian and allergist Walter Weaver said.

The family is planning private services. In lieu of flowers, the mily suggests donations to Community Hospice at 301 Vanderbilt Way In San Bernardino.

Dr. Quick was born September 7, 1911, in Mapleton, Iowa. He graduated from Mapleton High school in 1929. He received his Medical doctorate from the Uniersity of Minnesota in 1936. He
was certified in internal medicine.

In 1941, he became one of the first physicians to join the newly formed Riverside Medical Clinic,
then located in the Mission Inn Rotunda. After 1 1/2 years with the doctors group, Dr. Quick was
called into active duty in World War II and served two years at the 156th General Hospital in
England. He was honorably discharged with the rank of major in the U.S. Army Medical Corps. Dr. Quick returned to Riverside Medical Clinic after the war and a few years later was electec by his fellow physicians president of the medical staff at Riverside Community Hospital and Riverside County Hospital now called Riverside General
Hospital. He retired in 1983.

One of his most importan contributions to health care was the importing of new technolog and techniques in heart medicine to Riverside. In 1960 Dr. Quick attended a thre month post-graduate course in cardiology at Harvard University. Subsequently at Riverside Community Hospital, he introduced new EKG technology monitor the heart and electric cardio version, a technique to defibrillation that uses doses of electricity to alter a healthy though non-lethal heart rhythms to healthy rhythms.

Dr. Quick is survived by his wife, Bea; daughters Ann Caprioglio of Brussels, Belgin and Jane Guetz of San Diego, sons Dan of Delmar and Jan of Santa Ynex; and six grandchildren.