TY - JOUR
T1 - How the US Army Forged Hand Surgery
AU - Dunn, John C.
AU - Lenhart, Martha K.
AU - Higgins, James P.
AU - Nesti, Leon J.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 American Society for Surgery of the Hand
PY - 2020/4
Y1 - 2020/4
N2 - As the United States plunged into World War II, the surgeon general, Norman T. Kirk, scrambled to care for the complex hand injuries sustained in combat. To remedy this problem, Major General Kirk appointed Sterling Bunnell, a general surgeon and a World War I veteran with a keen interest in hand injuries, to serve as the consultant to the Secretary of War. Kirk and Bunnell formed 9 US military hand centers that treated 22,000 hand injuries in World War II. Bunnell and his pupils would later form the nucleus of the American Society for Surgery of the Hand. Through Dr. Bunnell's expertise, skillful care, dedication to teaching, and love of country, US hand surgery was born.
AB - As the United States plunged into World War II, the surgeon general, Norman T. Kirk, scrambled to care for the complex hand injuries sustained in combat. To remedy this problem, Major General Kirk appointed Sterling Bunnell, a general surgeon and a World War I veteran with a keen interest in hand injuries, to serve as the consultant to the Secretary of War. Kirk and Bunnell formed 9 US military hand centers that treated 22,000 hand injuries in World War II. Bunnell and his pupils would later form the nucleus of the American Society for Surgery of the Hand. Through Dr. Bunnell's expertise, skillful care, dedication to teaching, and love of country, US hand surgery was born.
KW - Fellowship training
KW - hand surgery history
KW - military surgery
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85076239176&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.jhsa.2019.10.008
DO - 10.1016/j.jhsa.2019.10.008
M3 - Review article
C2 - 31813587
AN - SCOPUS:85076239176
SN - 0363-5023
VL - 45
SP - 354
EP - 357
JO - Journal of Hand Surgery
JF - Journal of Hand Surgery
IS - 4
ER -