Elliott P. Joslin practised at a period when medicine itself was being rebuilt on new foundations.
The record lists Elliott P. Joslin as American physician (1869–1962).
Elliott P. Joslin was born at Massachusetts in 1869. His recorded nationality is United States. He trained at Harvard Medical School and Yale University.
Anaesthesia, antisepsis and germ theory arrived within fifty years and made modern surgery possible for the first time.
Clinical knowledge is accumulated slowly and revised often, usually at some cost.
Recognition followed: Banting Medal (1941) and George M. Kober Medal (1932).
That the work was done from United States matters: hospitals, training and research funding are unevenly distributed, and they decide which questions can be asked.
Elliott P. Joslin died in 1962, aged 93. What survives is the change in practice, which is how a medical life is actually measured.
Achievements
- Banting Medal — 1941
- George M. Kober Medal — 1932
