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    • Feb 3, 1938
    Cole Porter is admitted to New York's Doctors Hospital, where he has a second round of surgery on his legs, which were crushed in a horse-riding accident four months earlier. Porter's country credits later include Gene Autry's "Don't Fence Me In"
    Oct 19, 1941
    Composer Cole Porter checks into Doctors Hospital in Manhattan, where he has surgery on his left leg nearly seven years after he first broke it. Porter has already written "Don't Fence Me In," which goes on to become a country hit for Gene Autry
    Apr 14, 1947
    The Tennessean reports Roy Acuff is receiving medical treatment at room 327 in Saint Thomas Hospital in Nashville. No ailment is specified, though the paper indicates he "may undergo operation"
    May 21, 1951
    Hank Williams is sent to the North Louisiana Sanatorium in Shreveport, moaning about back pain. The pain remains throughout the rest of his life
    Aug 31, 1951
    Five-year-old Neil Young wakes up at his home in Omemee, Ontario, in pain. He is taken to a Toronto hospital, where he is diagnosed with polio
    Sep 6, 1951
    Five-year-old Neil Young is discharged from a Toronto hospital after a six-week stay with polio. As an adult, he writes the country hits "Are You Ready For The Country" and "Love Is A Rose"
    Oct 5, 1951
    "Don't Fence Me In" songwriter Cole Porter enters Doctors Hospital in Manhattan, where he undergoes multiple shock treatments
    Nov 1, 1951
    Cole Porter, co-author of "Don't Fence Me In," is released from Doctors Hospital in New York after a stay of nearly four weeks in which he underwent repeated shock therapy for emotional problems
    Dec 24, 1951
    Hank Williams is released from Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville 11 days after having spinal fusion surgery
    Jun 14, 1952
    Woody Guthrie is checked in to Bellevue Hospital in New York, after threatening to kill himself. Doctors label him schizophrenic, though they are uncertain about his illness. It is later discovered to be a rare disease, Huntington's chorea



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