[Congressional Record Volume 151, Number 30 (Monday, March 14, 2005)]
[House]
[Pages H1374-H1375]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                  IN REMEMBRANCE OF CHARLES R. BAXTER

  (Mr. BURGESS asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. BURGESS. Mr. Speaker, it is my sad duty to report to the House 
that we lost a pioneer in medicine this weekend down in Dallas: Dr. 
Charles Baxter, a surgeon whose research in clinical skills saved 
thousands of lives over the years.
  Dr. Baxter will be remembered for a lot of things back home, not the 
least of which was his treatment of a severely burned patient and his 
introduction of very aggressive fluid management in the initial hours 
after the burn had occurred, saving countless patients from going into 
acute renal failure, dealing with what was then one of the principal 
causes of death in the severely burned patient.
  It was reported in the newspaper this weekend that Dr. Baxter, in an 
effort one time to bring the spirits up of a young 8-year-old girl who 
had been burned over 92 percent of her body, brought an Airedale puppy 
into the burn unit at Parkland. He scrubbed it down with antibacterial 
cleanser and brought the girl a new reason to continue on in her 
struggle to recover from her burn.
  I remember Dr. Baxter when I was a resident down in the operating 
room. He had a heart attack a few days before, but was down there in 
the wheelchair in the surgery office barking out

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orders to his residents at the surgery board to keep them on schedule.
  And, of course, the country remembers Dr. Baxter. From that terrible 
day in November of 1963, Dr. Baxter was the head of the emergency room 
when John Kennedy was brought into the facility at Parkland Hospital.
  Mr. Speaker, all of us in Dallas and across the country mourn the 
passing of Dr. Baxter, and our thoughts and prayers will be with his 
family during this time.

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