The Hospital for the Ruptured and Crippled Renamed The Hospital for Special Surgery 1940; The War Years 1941–1945

• Published in: HSS journal Vol. 5; no. 1; pp. 1 - 8
• Main Author: Levine, David B.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Los Angeles, CA SAGE Publications 01.02.2009; Springer-Verlag; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Anesthesiology; Health care; Hospitals; Imaging; Medicine; Medicine & Public Health; Original; Original Article; Orthopedics; Radiology; Rheumatology; Sports Medicine; Surgical Orthopedics; Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS); Eugene H. Pool; Robert Lee Patterson, Jr; Franklin D. Roosevelt; T. Campbell Thompson; Norman T. Kirk; Milton Helpern; Hospital for the Ruptured and Crippled (R & C); Harry Platt; American Hospital in Britain; Philip D. Wilson; Richard H.Freyberg

In 1939, the 75th anniversary program marking the founding of the Hospital for the Ruptured and Crippled (R & C), the oldest orthopaedic hospital in the nation, was held at the hospital site in New York City. Dr. Philip D. Wilson, Surgeon-in-Chief since 1935, used this event to mark the return o...