Paul Randall Harrington
American surgeon
Died when: 69 years 63 days (830 months)Star Sign: Libra
Paul Randall Harrington (September 27, 1911 – November 29, 1980) was an American orthopaedic surgeon.He is best known as the designer of the Harrington Rod, the first device for the straightening and immobilization of the spine inside the body.
It entered common use in the early 1960s and remained the gold standard for scoliosis surgery until the late 1990s.
During this period over one million people benefited from Harrington's procedure.
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