biography
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Bailey, Charles P(hilamore)
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| lived:
| (1911–93)
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| biography:
| Surgeon, born in Wanamassa, New Jersey, USA. He studied at Rutgers (BA), Hahnemann Medical College, Philadelphia (1932 MD), and went on to earn MS and DSc degrees at the University of Pennsylvania. His subsequent posts include chief of thoracic surgery at Hahnemann University Hospital (1940s and 1950s), director of cardiovascular surgery at the Deborah Heart and Lung Center in Browns Mills, NJ (1956–61), and professor and director of general surgery at the New York Medical College and Flower-Fifth Avenue Hospitals (1959–62). He also held many other administrative, surgical, and teaching posts. During the 1940s he pioneered surgical procedures, techniques, and instruments that made possible direct surgery on the human heart. Admired as an innovative and intrepid surgeon, he was also known for his often volatile temperament and uncompromising ways. In the late 1960s he began studying law in the evenings at Fordham Law School (New York City) and gained a law degree. In the 1970s he gave up surgery and became a consultant to law and insurance firms. |
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