Fred W Rankin, MD: A Man of Medicine During a Time of War and Change
| Autor: | Linda C. Combs, Joseph B. Zwischenberger |
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| Rok vydání: | 2011 |
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Surgeon general World War II business.industry media_common.quotation_subject History of medicine History 20th Century United States humanities Military medicine First world war General Surgery Griffin Great Depression Humans Wife Medicine Female Surgery World War I Military Medicine business Classics media_common |
| Zdroj: | Journal of the American College of Surgeons. 212:e13-e23 |
| ISSN: | 1072-7515 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.jamcollsurg.2010.12.052 |
| Popis: | C o Fred Rankin was a man of medicine and of firm opinions. Born in 1886, he lived through the Great Depression and both world wars. He married into one of the great families of American medicine when Edith Mayo became his wife. He served as a field surgeon during World War I and rose to the rank of brigadier general during World War II, serving as chief surgical consultant to the Surgeon General. The surgical consultant system during World War II resulted in a survival rate among our wounded unequalled in the history of warfare. As a civilian, he was president of the Southern Surgical Association in the 1930s and a founding member of the American Board of Surgery. When elected president of the American College of Surgeons (ACS) in 1952, he became only the third person to be elected president of 3 outstanding medical societies: the American Medical Association (AMA; 1942 to 1943), the American Surgical Association (1948), and the ACS; his predecessors were William Mayo and his father-in-law, Charles Mayo. It is easily recognized throughout our archived collection that Dr Rankin was a man of strong opinions, often eloquently delivered. His Presidential Address to the ACS still holds great meaning for today’s surgeon and indeed all practitioners of medicine. In his Presidential Address to the Southern Surgical Association in 1937, he compared surgery with art, stating, “Artists . . . . . display on canvas or in marble the anatomic outlines of the human form, but the surgeon uses the body of his fellowman for his canvas.” On he canvas of Dr Rankin’s life is painted a story of great nterest in the history of medicine. On arrival at the University of Kentucky (May 2007) as he fifth chairman of the Department of Surgery since 964, I began the task of occupying my “new” office. Each f the 4 previous chairmen (Ben Eiseman, Ward Griffin |
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