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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 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and entertaining often, highly engaged with students—was not the Halsted people knew later in Baltimore, a withdrawn, wary, and enigmatic figure.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 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.
1 Department of Surgery, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Maryland 21205, USA.
Such is the case with William Stewart Halsted (1852-1922), first professor of surgery at The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Md. There is little doubting the fact that his efforts introduced a "new" American surgery, based as much on pathology and physiology as on anatomy.
- Ira M. Rutkow
- 2000
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 ...
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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.
