How the US Army Forged Hand Surgery

John C. Dunn; Martha K. Lenhart; James P. Higgins; Leon J. Nesti

doi:10.1016/j.jhsa.2019.10.008

How the US Army Forged Hand Surgery

John C. Dunn, Martha K. Lenhart, James P. Higgins, Leon J. Nesti

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Abstract

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.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	354-357
Number of pages	4
Journal	Journal of Hand Surgery
Volume	45
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhsa.2019.10.008
State	Published - Apr 2020

Keywords

Fellowship training
hand surgery history
military surgery

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Surgery
Orthopedics and Sports Medicine

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