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                    1886- Cubit feet ? 7 boxes This collection comprises six scrapbooks (plus one box of miscellaneous items) of letters, newsclippings, and photographs documenting major milestones in the career of Lexinngton, Kentucky surgeon Fred W. Rankin, M.D. archival material English unknown This digital resource may be freely searched and displayed.  Permission must be received for subsequent distribution in print or electronically.  Physical rights are retained by the owning repository.  Copyright is retained in accordance with U. S. copyright laws.  For information about permissions to reproduce or publish, contact the Special Collections Research Center. Fred W. Rankin, M.D. Scrapbooks Correspondence –– Rankin, Fred W. (Fred Wharton),
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                States American Surgical Association American College of Surgeons News clippings. "Reforms In Surgeon Ranks Are Demanded By Dr.                                 Rankin." Chicago, Illinois. "RANKIN WILL ADDRESS BRITISH, IRISH                                 SURGEONS text News clippings. "Reforms In Surgeon Ranks Are Demanded By Dr.                                 Rankin." Chicago, Illinois. "RANKIN WILL ADDRESS BRITISH, IRISH                                 SURGEONS 2012 https://exploreuk.uky.edu/dips/xt7xks6j2258/data/rankin4kdl_6/rankin4kdl_6_3c/i6-3c-1/i6-3c-1.pdf October 9, 1953 1953 October 9, 1953 section false xt7xks6j2258_443 xt7xks6j2258 Page 12
 
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CHICAGO, Oct. 9 (IP)-The new *—j"‘j ’
head of the American College of `
Surgeons said tonight the college . ‘
must end fee splitting, ghost sur- ,—
gery and the charging of exorbit- . I ·»
ant fees. ' i
Dr. Fred W. Rankin, of Lexing- V _
ton, Ky., spoke after a ceremony, . Z ?
at which he was installed as presi-
dent of the college and 1,100 new
fellows were inducted, l , , I
"Let us admit," Dr. Rankin said, if--
"that there are still men in our V
profession—fortunate1y their num-
ber is sma1l—who practice divi- V.
sion of fees, who do ghost surgery, - ,
who perform unnecessary opera-
tions, and who charge exorbitant V
tees for their services." _ _ _ .
The responsibility of the Col- .
lege of Surgeons, he said, is "to ” ,_
make every effort to end these . _`
practices" which have been con-
demned by the American Medical · .
Association and by numberous . ·
state medical groups. ~ ‘°
Dr. Rankin said that "in many `
respects surgeons carry the heav- ’ , `
iest responsibilities of all physi- ~ ·
cialis, if only because of the harm ‘ _
they can do." ,
,For that reason, he said, and _
because the field of medical __,-
knowledge is too broad for any _  
one man to master it, specializa- . ‘
tion is necessary. _
"I am convinced," Dr. Rankin · ·
said, "that we do not have too _ , -
many adequately trained special- ‘
ists, and I am equally convinced
that surgery is too often done by — · _ .
men of too little training and _  
experience.
"This problem will not be
solved by attempts to delineate . _
the boundaries between minor and —  
major surgery. Minor surgery,
when done by an unskilled hand, ’ A
is major surgery.” ° _ .
Dr. Rankin said that high ’ » ~
ethical standards, "honesty, integ- · _
rity and the stoutness of character »
to which we give the old-fash- ; ,
ioned name of uprigh»tness," are ‘
"still the spiritual values which — —
men should live by."
Yet, he said, "there are some in V -
our midst who do not recognize
their .obligations or who, recog- V .
nizing them, lack the courage to .   `
live by them. They fall into the V -
twin- pitfalls of avarice and ill- '
gotten gains." , -
Dr. Rankin said that during the V
past ye.  {attempts have actually
been m   in certain medical ‘ .
organiza? ’ to discipline the _re- :
gents; of t IS college who simply i '
told fthe truth about these invidi- ‘ -
ous practices in press conferences. : _
These attempts did not succeed. I ` . V
doubt that such attempts will ever Y , ·
l succeed. V :
“But that the issue should ever I g—·
have been raised at all leaves one . ‘
wondering? < .
HE posed the question, ,"Are ` —
some, of our professional short- j V
comirtgs but p-art of an evolution- 5 ¢ · __
ary-cycle? -
"For my own part, I refuse to { ‘
believe it. The goal of our pro- I
fession is still service."

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RANKIN WILL ADDRESS
BRITISH, IRISH SURGEONS -
Dr. Fred W. Rankin, Lexington, T
international authority on cancer of .
the colon, who was inaugurated Y
yesterday as president of the Amer-
ican College of Surgeons\at its an- ;
nual meeting in Chicago, will .
go to Englan next May to address Q
the Associations of Surgeons of
Great Britain and Ireland. ,
The new ACS president is the A
author of 300 papers on operative
and clinical surgery and of many ’
monographs and textbooks on sur-
gery of the colon and rectum. .
He is the third person in medical I
history to be elected to the presi- Q
dency of three major medical 5
groups——the American Medical As- ;
sociation, the American Surgical i
Association and the College of Sur- i
geons. The other two are Dr. Wil- Q
liam J. _  ayo and Dr. Charles H. .
p Mayo    i
,    i21'iS a veteran of both Q
. Wor1d.§5 `?=L  .§During the iirst, he §
ser , _%I?7Jf, `onths with Army  
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