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Halsted did not have a private office in town, but would see his patients at the hospital or examine them in their homes. Out-of-town patients were examined pre and postoperatively in their hotel rooms.
- J Scott Rankin
- 10.1097/01.sla.0000201546.94163.00
- 2006
- Ann Surg. 2006 Mar; 243(3): 418-425.
During his years in Baltimore, Halsted made an unprecedented number of contributions to general surgery, including his development of radical mastectomy as a treatment for breast cancer.
- Michael P Osborne
- 2007
Apr 26, 2010 · But Halsted, still only 34, was undaunted. After a long European vacation and a stint in the 19th-century equivalent of drug rehab, he took a train down to Baltimore, where friends secured him a...
Following his discharge from Butler in 1886, Halsted moved to Baltimore, Maryland, to join his friend William Welch in organizing and launching the new Johns Hopkins Hospital. Halsted began working in Welch's experimental laboratory, and he presented a paper at Harvard Medical School.
His private class went to his office 2 nights a week at 9 o’clock where they were quizzed until 11 or 12 o’clock. Lived with an intern Thomas McBride on East 25th Street (between Madison and 4th Ave).
In Baltimore, he was more reserved and distant and more sarcastic in his dealings with colleagues and subordinates and often slacked on administrative matters that he was responsible for as the Chief Surgeon and Professor at the Hopkins Hospital and Medical School.
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Halsted married Hampton, though the two lived largely separate lives, and he spent more than thirty years as chief surgeon at Hopkins. Like his mother, he suffered from gallbladder disease, and in September 1922, just shy of his seventieth birthday, he became jaundiced.
