A Dartmouth First
Pediatric Surgery
In
1946, when C. Everett Koop '37 began working at Children's Hospital in Philadelphia,
surgery in newborns was nearly unknown - only two surgeons in the country
specialized in children. Koop helped change all that, bringing pediatric
surgery to the prominence by urging the development of safer anethesia for
infants and children and by tackling cases other physicians dismissed as
impossible.