Initiated into
Fellowship
of College of Surgeons
Dr. R. B. Hare of Simcoe
leaves for Cleveland today to [attend] the Congress of the American
College of Surgeons where he will be initiated as a Fellow of the
American College of Surgeons. He was elected to the fellowship in
October of this year.
The fellowship is awarded to
practising surgeons who restrict their work to surgery. In order to
qualify, Dr. Hare will retire from general practice on 1 Jan 1919
and will restrict his practice to referred consultations and
surgery.
Unusual is the fact that
Simcoe will now be the only centre in Ontario of a population less
than 20,000 which has a doctor restricting his practice entirely to
surgery.
A native of Ottawa, Dr. Hare,
who is 55 years of age, attended Ottawa Collegiate Institute,
graduating in 1909. He attended the Ontario College of Education in
1909 and 1910, teaching school in Saskatchewan from 1910 to 1913.
He then attended the Medical
College of the University of Toronto for two years and then enlisted
for active service in World War I. He was wounded and taken prisoner
in June 1916, being repatriated to England in January 1919. While a
prisoner-of-war he was mentioned in dispatches for work he carried
out while a prisoner.
Returning to Medical College
in Oct 1919, he graduated in medicine in 1922, taking a research
fellowship at the university during the next year.
Dr. Hare then took
post-graduate work in England and Scotland, receiving a Fellowship
of the Royal College of Surgeons at Edinburgh in 1925.
In October 1925, Dr. Hare
opened a general practice in Simcoe and was certified as a
Specialist in General Surgery by the Royal College of Surgeons of
Canada in November 1944.
