title: Collecting and writing United States surgical history.
authors.forename: I M
authors.initials: IM
authors.lastname: Rutkow
mesh_terms: D013502:General Surgery / Q000266:history*; D006663:Historiography; D006666:History of Medicine; D049690:History, Ancient; D049692:History, Early Modern 1451-1600; D049691:History, Medieval; D049711:History, Modern 1601-; D014481:United States