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  1. A Much Needed Change

    Date(s): May 1, 1847 to May 31, 1847 Location: PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania Tag(s): Surgery, United States, Medicine, Ethics, History 

      One spring evening in May of 1847, Issac Hays, chairman of the newly established American Medical Association (AMA), stood from his seat surrounded by colleagues, having just finished creating the original code of ethics adopted by the AMA. The code, having since then been the standard of medical ethics in the United States, was modeled heavily on the ethical beliefs of the European physician ad...

  2. Indiana Doctor Revolutionizes Surgery With Invention of New Bed

    Date(s): March 1, 1909 to March 31, 1909 Location: Johns Hopkins Hospital, Indiana University Tag(s): Surgery, Bed, Indiana, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Indiana University, Gatch 

    In 1909, the surgery bed was revolutionized, changing surgery and hospital care forever. Right at the turn of the century, Dr. Willis D. Gatch, an Indiana University graduate of 1901 and then Resident Assistant Surgeon at Johns Hopkins Hospital, published his work on his modern surgery bed. Later called the Gatch Bed, it solved a great deal of issues in several areas of patient care. Originally intended...