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1. sciencebasedmedicine.org › halsted-the-father-ofHalsted: The Father of Science-Based Surgery

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   Mar 9, 2010 · The students Halsted trained (including Harvey Cushing, the father of neurosurgery) developed into a new generation of leaders and teachers: science-based surgeons who were responsible for many of the subsequent advances in surgery.

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2. www.thelancet.com › pdfs › journalsWilliam Halsted: surgeon, innovator, addict - The Lancet

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   The list goes on: Halsted introduced local and regional anaesthesia, completed crucial work in vascular surgery, and composed a seminal tract on thyroid goitre. He was one of the four founding physicians of Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, USA.

3. www.aasurg.org › blog › how-halsted-altered-theHow Halsted Altered the Course of Surgery as We Know It

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   Nov 16, 2020 · Dr. Halsted was known to be meticulous, attentive, and lost in work when performing surgical procedures. He was calm and detached in the operating room even in moments of surgical crises. He spoke little, was focused, and ‘nothing else existed but the work at hand’.

4. pubs.asahq.org › anesthesiology › articleGenius on the Edge: The Bizarre Double Life of Dr. William ...

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   It is well known that William Stewart Halsted (1852–1922) suffered addiction to cocaine. This biography emphasizes that the tragedy occurred early in his career during seminal work for nerve blocking in clinical surgery and dentistry.

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   Jan 1, 2010 · 4.04. 779 ratings99 reviews. A major new biography of the doctor who invented modern surgery. Brilliant, driven, but haunted by demons, William Stewart Halsted took surgery from a horrific, dangerous practice to what we now know as a lifesaving art.

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   Jul 1, 2010 · In the hospital, Halsted was stiff, painfully shy, reclusive, unapproachable, often severe, sarcastic, and even cruel.

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   Who was Dr Halsted?

   • Within this environment, the author describes the impressively accomplished life of Halsted. Father of modern surgery, an innovator, a surgeon-scientist; Dr. Halsted was also a pathologist.

   How Halsted Altered the Course of Surgery as We Know It

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   Who was William Stewart Halsted?

   • The patient recovered uneventfully. The patient was the surgeon’s own mother. This compelling story is the beginning of an excellent new biography of William Halsted, the father of modern surgery, Genius on the Edge: The Bizarre Double Life of Dr. William Stewart Halsted, by Gerald Imber, MD.

   Halsted: The Father of Science-Based Surgery

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   What did Halsted do when he went to medical school?

   • When Halsted went to medical school, surgeons still operated in street clothes, with bare hands, and major surgical procedures carried a mortality rate of nearly 50 percent. Suppuration of wounds was called laudable pus.

   Halsted: The Father of Science-Based Surgery

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   How did Halsted contribute to the development of surgery?

   • Halsted both synthesized all that came before him and laid the blueprint for all that followed, up to the present time and beyond, in the development of surgery as a discipline that reliably and predictably comforted and cured patients.

   Genius on the Edge: The Bizarre Double Life of Dr. William Stewart

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   Why is Halsted important?

   • Perhaps most important is Halsted’s contribution to graduate medical training in the United States. Together with Dr. Osler (also a founding professor of Johns Hopkins), Halsted introduced the graduated-responsibility training system we call residency.

   How Halsted Altered the Course of Surgery as We Know It

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8. www.jhandsurg.org › article › S0363-5023(14)00654-6Genius on the Edge: The Bizarre Double Life of Dr. William ...

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   Oct 1, 2014 · Dr. Imber’s book is difficult to put down, but a serious lack of clear footnoting is a flaw. In a subject as controversial as Halsted’s narcotic addiction, this is a problem.