Charles P. Bailey
Charles Philamore Bailey was an American cardiac surgeon. His methods were the focus of a 1957 Time magazine article. Born in Wanamassa, a suburb of Asbury Park, New Jersey, he was a graduate of Rutgers University, Hahnemann Medical College and the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Bailey performed the first incisional mitral commisurotomy on June 10, 1948 at Episcopal Hospital in Philadelphia. The patient was a 24-year-old female with severe mitral stenosis. She lived for 38 years after the surgery. Dr. Bailey published a textbook of cardiac surgery in 1955. He was often in competition with Dr. Dwight Harken of Harvard. Both of them passed away in August 1993.
