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While practicing primary care medicine for decades and becoming a leading advocate nationally for all physicians in his field, Dr. John Goodson, who spent his entire career at MGH and taught general internal medicine to generations of physicians, was 76 when he died Feb. 7 in his Cambridge home.

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Dr. John Goodson, physician, poet, and primary care advocate, dies at 76

February 23, 2026

Of one patient, he wrote about the startling way death suddenly arrives: “And then you vanished / only…