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1. www.thelancet.com › journals › lancetWilliam Stewart Halsted: his life and contributions to surgery

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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. Halsted's research developed a better understanding of surgically amenable disease and a multitude of new techniques and ...

   • Author: Michael P Osborne

   • Publish Year: 2007

2. magazine.columbia.edu › article › cocaine-addict-whoHow a Cocaine-Addicted Surgeon Changed Medicine Forever

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   At Hopkins, Halsted attained greatness, becoming a slower, more methodical surgeon who, while actively concealing his addictions — and earning a reputation as an enigmatic recluse — transformed the entire field. His best-known advance, however, was accidental.

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

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   Mar 9, 2010 · 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.

4. www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov › pmc › articlesNecessity is the mother of invention: William Stewart Halsted ...

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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.

   • Author: James R. Wright, Norman S. Schachar
   • DOI: 10.1503/cjs.003319

   • Publish Year: 2020
   • Publication: Can J Surg. 2020 Feb; 63(1): E13-E18.

5. hub.jhu.edu › magazine › 2022Angels and Demons: The peculiar and haunted genius of Dr. Halsted

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   Angels and Demons: The peculiar and haunted genius of Dr. Halsted. A Johns Hopkins founding physician, William Stewart Halsted, with the help of his wife, Caroline Hampton, pioneered modern surgery as he waged a lifelong battle against drug addiction. One hundred years after his death, his legacy continues.

6. www.tandfonline.com › doi › pdfH. L. Mencken and the four doctors: Osler, Halsted, Welch ...

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   Charles Stewart Roberts, MD. Halsted stood clearly at the head of the list, with Osler a good distance below him. Probably on a level with Osler stood Kelly; then there was another drop to Welch. —H.

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   Who was Dr Halsted & what did he do?

   • 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. In Baltimore, he was a slow and meticulous surgeon who was a recluse and who avoided teaching medical students when possible.

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   How did William Stewart Halsted become a doctor?

   • William Stewart Halsted developed a novel residency training program at Johns Hopkins Hospital that, with some modifications, became the model for surgical and medical residency training in North America. While performing anesthesia research early in his career, Halsted became addicted to cocaine and morphine.

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   Who was William Stewart Halsted?

   • Dr. William Stewart Halsted's decidedly unorthodox surgeries led to lifesaving results for generations. Early in his career, William Halsted 1877VPS removed seven gallstones from a patient. The operation, the first of its kind, was performed on a kitchen table, and the patient, a seventy-year-old woman, was Halsted’s mother.

   How a Cocaine-Addicted Surgeon Changed Medicine Forever

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   Was Halsted a 'father of a school of safety in surgery'?

   • Daniel B. Nunn, while Historian of The Halsted Society, noted that “Halsted is properly credited as the ‘father of a school of safety in surgery,’ a school in which brilliance and speed of execution were subordinated to accurate, safe, and thorough performance ...” 13

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8. 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.