There have been 52 winners of the Medal of Honor (awarded to people in the United States military) that have served in a medical capacity. Fifteen of these medals were awarded posthumously. To commerorate Memorial Day, the story of one of these heroes is below:
Lloyd Cortes Hawks was born January 13, 1911 in Becker, Minnesota. At the age of eight, he moved with his family to Michigan. After graduating from high
One of the reasons that I do not watch medical shows on television is that they are just too “inexact” for me. I admit that I have a surgeon’s personality in the sense that I want to know every single last detail – the specifics of when, what, how, and for how long. When I can’t get that information I go into “tilt” mode slightly and it ruins my enjoyment of the show.
I ran into the same type of problem with the last book I read. It was called Reckless Youth by Nigel Hamilton and is
The most influential surgeon in American medical history is also one of the most enigmatic and tragic. His surgical innovations include the modern anesthesia record, the use of surgical gloves,and new operations for breast cancer, hernia repair, and thyroid disease. He also championed the philosophy that tissues must be handled with meticulous care during operations and large blood loss was to be avoided above all else. Halsted also implemented the structure of the modern surgical residency in the United States by requiring medical graduates who wanted to practice surgery to spend long years of service on the hospital wards acquiring ever increasing amounts of autonomy and responsibility (a startling departure from the practices of the day). But, despite the huge impact he had on the field of surgery and the honors and accolades bestowed on him, his life was largely one of loneliness and personal struggle.
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