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unusual facts about Chief Surgeon



Harry J. Haiselden

Harry John Haiselden (March 16, 1870 - June 18, 1919) was the Chief Surgeon at the German-American Hospital in Chicago in 1915 who refused to perform needed surgery for children born with severe birth defects and allowed the babies to die, in an act of eugenics.


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2nd Virginia Infantry

Dr. Hunter McGuire, who eventually would become Chief Surgeon of the Second Corps, amputating the arm of Stonewall Jackson after Chancellorsville, and the leg of Isaac Trimble after Gettysburg, as well as a founder of the Medical Society of Virginia and a president of the American Medical Association, initially enlisted as a private in Company F.

Frank Porter Patterson

He served as chief surgeon of the bone and joint department for the Vancouver General Hospital and St. Paul's Hospital.

Gillette Children's Specialty Healthcare

It was founded by Dr. Arthur Gillette and Jessie Haskins in 1897, taking on Arthur Gillette's name as the hospital's first chief surgeon, an appointment given by the regents of the University of Minnesota.

Heinrich Braun

The following year he was appointed chief surgeon and medical director of the Royal Saxonian Hospital in Zwickau, a position he maintained until his retirement in 1923.

Olof af Acrel

In 1743, during the War of the Austrian Succession, he was appointed acting chief surgeon at a French military hospital in Lauterbourg, Alsace.

Royal Hospital Haslar

From 1758 the chief surgeon was James Lind, who previously, though unwittingly, had discovered the cure for scurvy.

Samuel Siegfried Karl von Basch

In 1864, Basch was appointed chief surgeon of the military hospital at Puebla, Mexico.

Silas B. Hays

In May he was assigned as Chief of the Supply Division in the Office of the European Theater's Chief Surgeon, responsible for acquiring, storing and distributing blood, plasma, penicillin and other medical supplies American service members required during combat in Europe.

Thomas George Roddick

In 1894 Roddick, with the aid of fellow specialist James Bell, created the Department of Surgery and became the first chief surgeon of the Royal Victoria Hospital.