biography
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Lahey, Frank Howard
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| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1880–1953)
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| biography:
| Surgeon, born in Haverhill, Massachusetts, USA. He taught at Harvard (1912–15) and Tufts (1913–24), and in 1923 these universities established an unprecedented joint chair for him. A surgeon of international renown, he pioneered a team approach to complicated procedures in lessening trauma. The clinic he opened (1923) is also famed for using the team approach to diagnosis. President of the American Medical Association (1941–2), he represented the ‘old guard’ and in 1949 he opposed Truman's compulsory national health insurance plan. |
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