Benjamin H. Kean (c. 1912 – 1993) was an American physician, author, researcher, and professor at Weill Cornell Medicine in New York City.
[2] After the start of World War II, he was commissioned into the US Army Medical Corps but remained at Gorgas Hospital, training US military physicians in tropical diseases.
He was a doctor for celebrities such as Marcus Wallenberg Jr., Oscar Hammerstein, Edna Ferber, Gertrude Lawrence, Martina Navratilova, and Salvador Dalí.
Kean also became a heavy gambler, and after his bookie's operation was raided in 1959, he appeared in many newspapers and had to attend court, which led to the end of his gambling.
[4] He was also alleged to have played a central role in convincing the United States to allow the deposed Shah of Iran to be admitted into the US for medical treatment.
: One Doctor's Adventures Among the Famous and Infamous from the Jungles of Panama to a Park Avenue Practice, describes his life, friends, colleagues, and patients in New York City.