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From Dr. Miller E. Preston (1879–1928) to the Department of Orthopaedics at Denver Health Medical Center in Denver, CO

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Dr. Miller Edwin Preston was a surgeon with a deep interest in trauma and orthopaedics who practiced in Denver in the early 1900s. Dr. Preston arrived in Denver shortly after the creation of Denver’s first city hospital in 1860. This hospital would later be renamed to Denver General Hospital and then Denver Health Medical Center. It excels for the quality of its emergency medicine residency program, a very high survival rate for severely injured patients and the clinical pathways and algorithms pertinent to the management of haemodynamically unstable pelvic ring injuries among others. Today, Dr. Preston’s legacy of excellence in the management of trauma patients is alive and well at Denver Health Medical Center, the city’s only level-one safety net hospital and academic affiliate of the University of Colorado Medical School.

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Denver Public Library, Special Collections - for sharing the rights on Figs. 1, 3 and 4: Dr. Miller's passport photograph, Old City Hall and “Police Ambulance Starting Out on an Emergency Call”. The latter one from Denver Municipal Facts: Volume 1 Number 36, October 23rd, 1909. The contribution promotes to the advancement of African American History, Western History, Genealogy and the Conservation Movement in the Rocky Mountain West, USA.

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  1. Department of Orthopaedics, Denver Health Medical Center, 777 Bannock Street, Denver, CO, 80204, USA

    Francisco Rodriguez-Fontan, Andrew S. Maertens, Joshua A. Parry, Stephen Stacey, Alexander Lauder, Kyros Ipaktchi, Austin Heare, Michael Hadeed & Cyril Mauffrey

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    Francisco Rodriguez-Fontan & Andrew S. Maertens

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Rodriguez-Fontan, F., Maertens, A.S., Parry, J.A. et al. From Dr. Miller E. Preston (1879–1928) to the Department of Orthopaedics at Denver Health Medical Center in Denver, CO. International Orthopaedics (SICOT) 45, 2997–3001 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00264-021-05132-z

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