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Dr. Curtis Prout, 96, physician, advocate for prison health care

By Michele Richinick

 |  Globe Correspondent  

  February 06, 2012

Dr. Curtis Prout a primary care physician for more than 65 years, retiring at 95, a year before he died. In 1972, while he was Governor Francis W. Sargent’s personal physician, Dr. Prout was appointed to lead a federally-funded project to improve medical care in the state’s prisons. “Generosity is the mark of the true physician; to deny it is to lower ourselves in the public eye and in our own eye,’’ Dr. Prout once wrote.

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