Rash's Surname Index
Notes for Harry C. BISHOP
DRS. HARRY C. Bishop and C. Everett Koop were united in their dedication to saving even the most desperately ill or deformed child.
As partners for many years at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, the two performed life-saving and pioneering surgery on children, including conjoined twins.
They developed techniques that were copied around the world.
Bishop once estimated that he operated on about 300 children a year, for a total of about 9,000 during his 37-year surgical career at Children's Hospital.
Harry Bishop, retired senior surgeon of Children's Hospital, died May 4 at age 88 in his home in Haverford.
Koop, who gained national recognition as the U.S. surgeon general from 1982 to 1989 under President Ronald Reagan, said in a statement that he had enormous regard for Bishop.
"Philadelphia and the surgical world lost a warrior and I lost a close friend and surgical partner when Harry Bishop died this week," he said.
"A warrior because Harry never found a surgical problem he did not try to fix. A friend and surgical partner because, when I was away, Harry was there, and vice versa."
Koop, who began his association with Children's in 1946 and became surgeon-in-chief, recruited Bishop to join the hospital in 1954. Bishop also was professor of surgery at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.
Bishop once wrote that with Koop and others, he "developed diagnostic methods salvaging many newborns who, in the past, would have died of their anatomical problems."
One of their surgical techniques was known internationally as the "Bishop-Koop" operation used to treat intestinal obstruction in babies with cystic fibrosis.
In 1966, Bishop and his colleagues cared for a baby girl born without a small intestine.
Their groundbreaking work proved for the first time that human infants could survive and grow on intravenous feeding called "hyperalimentation."
Bishop was born in Manhattan and grew up in and around New York.
He graduated from Dartmouth College, as did Koop four years earlier, and entered Dartmouth Medical School.
His education was interrupted by World War II.
He joined the Army and, because the Army needed doctors, was able to continue his medical education at Harvard Medical School.
He completed an 18-month internship at New York Hospital, part of Cornell University's Medical School, followed by his obligatory Army service.
He served in the States with the Army Medical Corps and was discharged as a captain.
While in medical school, he developed an interest in pediatric surgery, then an infant discipline.
After performing a surgical residency at Mary Imogene Hospital, in Cooperstown, N.Y., he became a resident at Boston Children's Hospital.
He ultimately became its chief pediatric surgical resident.
Bishop was elected to the British Pediatric Surgical Society and the German Pediatric Surgical Society.
He lectured throughout the world and was author or co-author of 78 scientific publications.
He married Deborah Dilworth, daughter of the late Philadelphia Mayor Richardson Dilworth, in 1984.
He previously was married to the late Katharine Thayer.
He also is survived by two sons, Thomas and Robert; a daughter, Katharine Kilmurray; three stepchildren, William, Daisy and Noel Newbold; a brother, Robert L.; a sister, Betty Williams; and four grandchildren. He was predeceased by a son, William.
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