Barney Brooks

Barney Brooks

Barney Brooks (December 17, 1884March 30, 1952), a 20th century U.S. physician and surgeon, was an influential medical educator, particularly in surgical residency training, and was known for his research in orthopedics, intestinal obstruction, and vascular surgery. He was appointed first Professor and Chief of Surgery at the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine in 1925 where he served until his death in 1952 from a hemorrhagic stroke.

Training

Barney Brooks was born in Texas in 1884, received his B.S. from the University of Texas in 1905, and graduated from Johns Hopkins Medical School in 1911. While at Hopkins, he worked for two years as a high school science teacher to supplement the cost. He did his internship in surgery under William Halsted but was not offered an appointment as surgical resident, so he completed his residency at The Barnes Hospital in St. Louis, Missouri, after which he joined the surgical staff at Washington University School of Medicine. In 1925 Brooks was appointed Vanderbilt University Hospital's first Professor and Chief of Surgery, in part due to a strong recommendation from Halsted, despite the fact that Halsted had denied him a residency position years earlier. Brooks established productive laboratories in surgical pathology both at Washington University and at Vanderbilt.

Leisure and Health

Brooks was an avid golfer who disregarded the limitations of inclement weather. When it was too dark to golf, he was known to play bridge. He suffered from hypertension for many years resulting in complications of congestive heart failure beginning in 1949, a left-sided stroke resulting in right hemiplegia in 1951, and finally a fatal right-sided cerebral hemorrhage in 1952.

Quotations

“ . . . Without doubt the only place for the effective teaching of surgery is on the wards, and good teaching can bedone only if the patients are receiving as nearly as possible perfect professional services.” - September 18, 1935, in a letter to Dr. C. W. Flynn

External links

*http://www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/biolib/hc/biopages/bbrooks.html

References

*Green Byron E. "Dr. Barney Brooks," American Journal of Surgery, Vol. 98: pp. 706-712, November 1959.
*Daniel, Jr., Rollin A. "Barney Brooks," Southern Surgical Association Transactions, Vol. 63, pp. 415-416, 1951.
*Merrill WH, "What's Past is Prologue," Ann Thorac Surg 1999;68:2366-75


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