Charles Philamore Bailey (September 8, 1910 – August 18, 1993) was an American cardiac surgeon. His methods were the focus of a 1957
Time magazine
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article. Born in Wanamassa, a suburb of
Asbury Park, New Jersey
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As of the 2020 U.S. census, the city's population was 15,188 , he was a graduate of
Rutgers University
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,
Hahnemann Medical College
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and the
University of Pennsylvania
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. Bailey performed commisurotomy in at least three patients and death was the outcome. On June 10, 1948 Bailey operated on a 30 year old man at Philadelphia General Hospital at eight in the morning and the patient died before the mitral valve was open. The same day at 2 pm at Episcopal Hospital in Philadelphia, Bailey operated on Claire Ward. The patient was a 24-year-old female with severe mitral stenosis. She lived for 38 years after the surgery. Bailey published a textbook of cardiac surgery in 1955. He was often in competition with
Dwight Harken
Dwight Emary Harken (1910–1993) was an American surgeon. He was an innovator in heart surgery and introduced the concept of the intensive care unit.
Life
Dwight Harken was born in Osceola, Iowa. He received his Bachelor's and Medical degrees f ...
of Harvard. Both of them died in August 1993.
[Bailey, Charles P. Surgery Of The Heart. 1955. Philadelphia. Lea and Febiger]
References
Notes
Daniel A. Goor - ''The Genius of C. Walton Lillehei and the True History of Open Heart Surgery''Annals of Thoracic Surgery
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1910 births
1993 deaths
American cardiac surgeons
20th-century surgeons
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