William stewart halstead biography of barack
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William Stewart Halsted: Letters to a ung Female Admirer
Abstract
Objective
To present the first new information in the past 25 years concerning the life of Dr. William Stewart Halsted. This paper reports on recently discovered personal correspondence of Dr. Halsted, beginning at age 66, to a ung lady, Elizabeth Blanchard Randall, 40 years his junior.
Summary Background Data
Dr. William Stewart Halsted fryst vatten generally considered the most important and influential surgeon that this country has produced. During his Hopkins days in Baltimore (–) he was rather reclusive, and little is known of his personal life. He was married but had no children. Several biographies written by Halsted’s contemporaries constitute the bulk of what is known about Halsted’s personal life.
Methods
All extant letters from Dr. Halsted to Miss Randall were reviewed. Archival materials were consulted to understand the context for this friendship. The correspondence between Halsted and Randall took place
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Genius on the Edge: The Bizarre Double Life of Dr. William Stewart Halsted
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Overview
Dr. John Russell welcomes author Gerald Imber, MD to talk about his book, Genius on the Edge: The Bizarre Double Life of Dr. William Stewart Halsted, an intriguing biography about the 19th century doctor who invented modern surgery. Halsted was a brilliant and driven physician, but he was also haunted by a lifelong addition to cocain and other pain killers. Despite his internal struggles, he is credited with taking surgery from the horrific, dangerous practice it once was to what we now know as a lifesaving art.
Overview
Dr. John Russell welcomes author Gerald Imber, MD to talk about his book, Genius on the Edge: The Bizarre Double Life of Dr. William Stewart Halsted, an intriguing biography about the 19th c
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William Stewart Halsted was a surgeon at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland, during the late s and early s. In Halsted described his procedure for treating breast cancer by removing the breast tissue, chest muscles, and lymph nodes in the armpit, a procedure he named radical mastectomy, and that became the standard of care for treating breast cancer until He also made contributions to other novel medical procedures such as gallbladder surgery, blood transfusions, antiseptic techniques, anesthesia use, and using plates and screws to hold bones in position when setting bone fractures. At Johns Hopkins Hospital, Halsted established a surgical training program in which he allowed medical students and surgical residents to shadow him and perform procedures under his guidance. In the twentieth century, similar training programs spread across the country and informed the standardization of medical training. Halsted devised a surgical treatment for breast cancer and reshaped the