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Francis Daniels Moore
Francis Daniels Moore
Pages 268-283
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Soon after he had completed his years of surgical training at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston and had become its chief resident in surgery in 1942, he began his pioneering work on the metabolic response to surgery. He became a postgraduate National Research Council fellow in isotope physics and its applications (under Joseph C
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He introduced new methods to the hospital laboratory from his research laboratory so that these syndromes of metabolic imbalance could be quantified in all hospitals. Francis Moore's contributions to the improvement of the metabolic care of surgical patients, especially those with severe burns, provided a scientific basis for modern intensive care units and rank with the great leaps in the history of progress in surgery brought about by the introduction of anesthesia, the development of aseptic technique, and the transfusion of blood.
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Moore arrived at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital as the new Surgeon-in-Chief, Dr. George Thorn, the hospital's Physician-in-Chief, was just beginning a program that would eventually treat renal failure by dialysis, using an external artificial kidney donated by a Dutch physician, Willem Kolff.
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As more effective immunosuppressive drugs were developed, kidney transplantation became a safer surgical therapy in major medical centers. In May 1963 Francis Moore was on the cover of Time magazine and in 1990 Joe Murray received the Nobel Prize.
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Francis Moore was one of Harvard Medical School's most inspiring teachers, and its most eloquent public speaker. I entered Harvard Medical School in 1953 and I can still recall every one of his lectures to the medical students.
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Moore's surgical residents at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital and now professor of surgery there, describes Francis Moore's maturing expertise in writing prose and playing music while at Harvard. As President of the Harvard Lampoon in his junior year, Franny and his friends became famous (infamous)
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His surgical residents all rotated through our pediatric surgery service, and we could see their professor's strong influence in their clear thinking about a diagnostic dilemma or a problem at the operating table. Such is the long-lasting impact of a great clinical teacher.
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From 1970 to 1975 he chaired a joint committee formed by the American College of Surgeons and the American Surgical Association to do a national study of the distribution, educational needs, and economics of medical and surgical care in our country. This effort led to the 1975 publication of Study of Surgical Services for the United States, which provided guidelines for surgical care and for training of surgeons for the next several decades.
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They raised five children, all highly successful. Their long and happy marriage has been recalled by many Brigham surgical residents who were entertained by the professor and his wife in their home or at hospital Christmas parties.
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Moore will always be remembered and will be sorely missed by patients throughout the world who were helped by his research, by students who were taught by him, and by his colleagues who were also his friends and to whom he was a magnificent role model.
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Cope. A study of capillary permeability in experimental burns and burn shock: Using radioactive dyes in blood and lymph.
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40:135. 1970 Therapeutic innovation: Ethical boundaries in the initial clinical trials of new drugs and surgical procedures.
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National surgi cal work patterns as a basis for residency training plans. The response of a panel of surgeons.
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282 B I O G R A P H I C A L M E M O I R S 1985 Surgical streams in the flow of health care financing. The role of surgery in national expenditures.
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