Word: surgeon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...succeed President Charles Horace Mayo, the American Surgical Association, meeting in Yale's Sterling Hall of Medicine, last week elected Dr. Arthur Dean Bevan, millionaire. Thus did the surgeons rebuke the American Medical Association for flaying Surgeon Bevan, 1917-18 A. M. A. president. Dr. Bevan had incurred A. M. A. wrath by telling U. S. Senators that 90% of whiskey prescriptions are sold illicitly (TIME...
...Surgeon Bevan's professional reputation is soundly founded. He originated the "hockey-stick" incision to expose the gall-bladder for operation without cutting through important nerves. He was one of the first to propose lengthening the period of premedical and medical education from three years to seven, considers his help in bringing about the longer course one of his "greatest accomplishments." He has been professional lecturer on surgery at the University of Chicago since 1901, professor and head of the surgical department of Rush Medical College since...
...when ambitious Martin Davey, Ohio tree surgeon and onetime Congressman, tried to draft Woodrow Wilsons Secretary of War for the primary, Mr. Baker sat down hard on the idea. He would not let his name go on the ballot. He insisted that "all hands" favored Governor White. He went on about his Cleveland law practice as if he had never heard of the Presidency. Mr. Davey, no friend of Governor White, was accused of promoting the Baker boom more to hurt White than to nominate Baker...
...President, elected to succeed Dr. Gary next year, is Dr. Dean De Witt Lewis, professor of surgery at Johns Hopkins University, surgeon-in-chief to Johns Hopkins Hospital. When Dr. Lewis, 57, was a Kewanee, Ill boy his great ambition was to be a professional ball player. He became a proficient pitcher. While he studied medicine at Rush Medical College he spent almost every free afternoon at ball games. The great pleasure of his interneship was the free passes which he received for tending the minor injuries of Chicago players...
Professionally he is rated a speedy, crackerjack general surgeon operating on "anything below the throat." The cliche is misleading. He has done notable re search on the pituitary gland (in the skull) as well as on the elastic tissues of the larynx and on bone cysts. For his re constructive surgery on mutilated War veterans he was awarded the Distinguished Service Medal. Surgery, he remarked last week upon his election as president of the American Medical Association, "is a long, hard grind...