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Harry J. Haiselden

American surgeon (1870-1919) · Doctors · Died at 49

Harry John Haiselden was an American physician and the Chief Surgeon at the German-American Hospital in Chicago, Illinois. Haiselden gained notoriety in 1915, when he refused to perform needed surgery for children born with severe birth defects and allowed the babies to die, in an act of eugenics.

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Category
Doctors
Type
Doctor
Status
Deceased
Dates
Lived 1870 to 1919 · aged 49

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