Charles P. Bailey

Charles Philamore Bailey (September 8, 1910 – August 18, 1993) was an American cardiac surgeon.[1] His methods were the focus of a 1957 Time magazine article.[2] Born in Wanamassa, a suburb of Asbury Park, New Jersey, he was a graduate of Rutgers University, Hahnemann Medical College and the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Bailey performed the first incisional mitral commisurotomy on June 10, 1948 at Episcopal Hospital in Philadelphia. The patient was a 24-year-old female with severe mitral stenosis. She lived for 38 years after the surgery. Dr. Bailey published a textbook of cardiac surgery in 1955. He was often in competition with Dr. Dwight Harken of Harvard. Both of them died in August 1993.[3]

References
  1. Pace, Eric (August 19, 1993). "Dr. Charles P. Bailey, 82, Pioneer In New Methods of Heart Surgery". New York Times. Retrieved June 27, 2010.
  2. "Medicine: Surgery's New Frontier". Time. March 25, 1957. Retrieved June 27, 2010.
  3. Bailey, Charles P. Surgery Of The Heart. 1955. Philadelphia. Lea and Febiger

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