Scottish Rite Hospital for Crippled Children opened in Dallas in 1921 near the corner of Oak Lawn and Maple Avenues. A founder and the chief of surgery was Dr. William Beal Carrell, the first orthopedic surgeon in Dallas, who had specialized in orthopedic surgery while in a World War I field hospital in France. Specialization was rare in surgery before this era.
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