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Surgeon who tried to save JFK dies (Dr. Charles R. Baxter)
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| 3/12/05
| AP - Dallas
Posted on 03/12/2005 10:44:17 PM PST by NormsRevenge
DALLAS - Dr. Charles R. Baxter, one of the surgeons who tried to save President John F. Kennedy after he was shot, has died, a colleague said. He was 75.
The surgeon died Thursday of pneumonia at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, where he had been professor emeritus of surgery since 1993, said Dr. Robert Rege, chairman of surgery.
Baxter was the emergency room director at Parkland Memorial Hospital, where Kennedy was taken after being shot by Lee Harvey Oswald on Nov. 22, 1963.
"As soon as we realized we had nothing medical to do, we all backed off from the man with a reverence that one has for one's president," Baxter said in 1988. "And we did not continue to be doctors from that point on. We became citizens again, and there were probably more tears shed in that room than in the surrounding hundred miles."
Baxter then operated on Texas Gov. John Connally, who was seriously wounded by Oswald.
Baxter also developed a formula for burn patients. He discovered that patients with large, severe burns need tremendous amounts of the fluid the first day of treatment, especially during the first eight hours of their ordeal. He also also founded a tissue bank at Parkland hospital to provide skin grafts for burn patients.
TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: charlesrbaxter; dies; jfk; jfkassassination; obituary; save; surgeon; touristguy; tried
To: NormsRevenge
They only want you to think it was pneumonia.... but there was a second virus...
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posted on
03/12/2005 10:46:22 PM PST
by
Phocion
(Abolish the 16th Amendment.)
To: NormsRevenge
CHARLES R. BAXTER, M.D
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posted on
03/12/2005 10:47:38 PM PST
by
NormsRevenge
(Semper Fi ...... The War on Terrorism is the ultimate 'faith-based' initiative.)
To: NormsRevenge
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posted on
03/12/2005 10:49:26 PM PST
by
ChefKeith
(Apply here to be added to the NASCAR Ping List, Daytona is done but we got 34 more races to go...)
To: Phocion
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posted on
03/12/2005 10:49:52 PM PST
by
Recovering Ex-hippie
(We need a Swiftees ad asking Kerry to sign the 180 !)
To: ChefKeith
Hi CK
Vegas tomorrow,, you working?
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posted on
03/12/2005 10:51:04 PM PST
by
NormsRevenge
(Semper Fi ...... The War on Terrorism is the ultimate 'faith-based' initiative.)
To: Phocion
They only want you to think it was pneumonia.... but there was a second virus...
Vast, left-wing conspiracy?
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posted on
03/12/2005 10:53:25 PM PST
by
Just Lori
(There! I said it!)
To: NormsRevenge
Yep, unless the plague takes a turn for the worse. I feel a little better than yesterday
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posted on
03/12/2005 10:57:18 PM PST
by
ChefKeith
(Apply here to be added to the NASCAR Ping List, Daytona is done but we got 34 more races to go...)
To: NormsRevenge
I wonder if he talked to Bob Woodward on his deathbed.
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posted on
03/12/2005 10:59:30 PM PST
by
bad company
(There can be no freedom without right and wrong.)
To: ChefKeith
Hang in there,, watch out for West Nile
C'ya at the race.
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posted on
03/12/2005 11:01:42 PM PST
by
NormsRevenge
(Semper Fi ...... The War on Terrorism is the ultimate 'faith-based' initiative.)
To: NormsRevenge
O.K.
I here your are gonna shine up your jackboots and be waiting to stomp if needed;)
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posted on
03/12/2005 11:03:20 PM PST
by
ChefKeith
(Apply here to be added to the NASCAR Ping List, Daytona is done but we got 34 more races to go...)
To: ChefKeith
LOL.. we'll see how things go..
Never a Boy Scout but still always prepared. ;-)
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posted on
03/12/2005 11:05:41 PM PST
by
NormsRevenge
(Semper Fi ...... The War on Terrorism is the ultimate 'faith-based' initiative.)
To: NormsRevenge
We'all gonna die. Dat da trooth. Be awares and prepairds. Nobody 'scape the reaper. Nobody. Not yestaday, today or tomorra'...dat's da trooth.
(yeah, it's Saturday night.....)
FMCDH(BITS)
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posted on
03/12/2005 11:32:19 PM PST
by
nothingnew
(There are two kinds of people; Decent and indecent.)
To: NormsRevenge
He tried to save someone with half his head missing?
Did he scrape the brains off Mrs. Kennedy and put it back in his skull?
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posted on
03/13/2005 1:43:59 AM PST
by
mellyK
To: NormsRevenge
How do you try to save someone who is missing half their gray matter?
To: NormsRevenge
Rest in peace, Dr. Charles R. Baxter.
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posted on
03/13/2005 6:53:27 AM PST
by
MeekOneGOP
(There is only one GOOD 'RAT: one that has been voted OUT of POWER !! Straight ticket GOP!)
To: elmer fudd
How do you try to save someone who is missing half their gray matter?
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posted on
03/13/2005 6:57:38 AM PST
by
MeekOneGOP
(There is only one GOOD 'RAT: one that has been voted OUT of POWER !! Straight ticket GOP!)
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