Tag: plastic surgeon
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Book review: The Facemaker: One Surgeon’s Battle to Mend the Disfigured Soldiers of World War I
Howard FischerUppsala, Sweden “A chirurgien should have…the harte of a lyin…the eyes of a hawke…[and] the hands of a woman.”—John Halle, English surgeon (c. 1529–c. 1568) Dr. Harold Gillies (1882–1960) was born in New Zealand to a family of Scottish origin. He studied medicine at Cambridge and took further training in otorhinolaryngology. When the First…
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The Lawnmower
Rachel H. KowalskyNew York, New York, USA This is how the phone call went: “I’ve got a kid here, run over by a lawnmower. He’s got some deep lacerations. I gotta send him over to Children’s.” The child’s vital signs were worrisome—a fast heart rate, a borderline blood pressure. “OK,” I said, grabbing a pen.…