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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.
www.thelancet.com/journals/lanonc/article/PIIS1470-2045(07)70076-1/fulltextWilliam Stewart Halsted: his life and contributions to surgery
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William Stewart Halsted, M.D. (September 23, 1852 – September 7, 1922) was an American surgeon who emphasized strict aseptic technique during surgical procedures, was an early champion of newly discovered anesthetics, and introduced several new operations, including the radical mastectomy for breast cancer. Along with William Osler (Professor ...
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.
Sep 19, 2024 · William Stewart Halsted (born Sept. 23, 1852, New York, N.Y., U.S.—died Sept. 7, 1922, Baltimore, Md.) was an American pioneer of scientific surgery who established at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, the first surgical school in the United States.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
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.
- Michael P Osborne
- 2007
He was the first to successfully resect a periampullary carcinoma. He developed the eponymous operation to correct inguinal hernias, pioneered the radical mastectomy for breast cancer, and undertook some of the earliest procedures on the biliary tract.
- Talha Khan Burki
- 2018
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.
Halsted’s career in New York rapidly deteriorated, and he was in and out of addiction treatment facilities. Halsted soon became addicted to morphine, which he used to treat his cocaine addiction. Halsted moved to Baltimore and began surgical research on dogs in William Welch’s laboratory at Hopkins.
