Visionary thinking and dedication to fine details don’t always go hand-in-hand.
Not so in the case of oncologist James Bearden, who came to Spartanburg in the 1970s to practice medicine and recently retired at the age of 82.
Day after day, Bearden would pore over patient data. For years – before staff hospitalists began to handle the inpatient caseload – he would make rounds at Spartanburg General Hospital at night and early mornings to check on patients, in addition to those he saw during his regular office hours…