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Halsted returned to Baltimore in early 1888, and, after the endorsements of Welch and Osler to the trustees, was later appointed surgeon in chief to The Johns Hopkins dispensary and acting surgeon at the hospital for 1 year.
The energetic, affable man he was in New York—socializing and entertaining often, highly engaged with students—was not the Halsted people knew later in Baltimore, a withdrawn, wary, and enigmatic figure.
Halsted’s surgical career is usually divided into his early years in New York and his later years in Baltimore. As a young surgeon in New York, Halsted was a highly skilled, bold, fast and daring surgeon who was charismatic and sociable and excelled at teaching medical students.
- James R. Wright, Norman S. Schachar
- 10.1503/cjs.003319
- 2020
- Can J Surg. 2020 Feb; 63(1): E13-E18.
The award winning documentary Halsted is true story of the most important and innovative surgeon America ever produced. The successful, daring and innovative William Halsted pioneered the use of local anesthesia, but at a terrible price — in the process of revolutionizing surgery he became addicted to cocaine and was institutionalized ...
Feb 22, 2010 · Imber traces Halsted's journey from a young Columbia-trained medical student to a successful surgeon who secretly suffered from several narcotic addictions.
Halsted was known as a bold and aggressive surgeon, a quality which was not to be part of his make-up in Baltimore. In 1884, while experimenting with cocaine hydrochloride as a surgical anesthetic, Halsted and several of his colleagues and students became addicted to the drug.
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William Stewart Halsted was a pioneer of surgery in the USA and made many wide-ranging contributions, including the surgical treatment of breast cancer. He changed the training of surgeons from a disorganised apprenticeship to the residency training programmes used today.