WALTON SHIM, MD was the first pediatric surgeon at Kauikeolani Childrenʼs Hospital and today – 42 years later – is a Pediatric Surgeon at Kapiʻolani Medical Center. He served as Chief of Staff for both Kauikeolani and Kapiʻolani and was instrumental in securing the grant to start the Pediatric Pulmonary Center, which developed into todayʼs Newborn and Intensive Care Units at Kapiʻolani Medical Center. Dr. Shim is also a Professor of Pediatrics at the John A. Burns School of Medicine.


Here are Dr. Shimʼs reflections:

 

The Evolution of Specialists

You know, the earliest doctors were generalists. They were both surgeons and medical doctors and gynecologists and pathologists and everything all rolled into one...

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Early Experience

Now, you know, in 1941, they performed the first open-heart surgery with a heart lung machine....

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The Rise of the Pediatric Pulmonary Center

That was an exciting time. When I came back it was essentially the time when there was a fair amount of national money put into a program called the Regional Medical Program....

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