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GREEN, Ross Wentworth (41623)

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Birth

  • Born on October 08, 1916 in Summerside, Prince Co., PE

Death

  • Died on June 14, 1998 in Portland, Cumberland Co., ME
  • Buried in Gracelawn Memorial Park in Auburn, Androscoggin Co., ME

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  • Occupation: Physician
  • Obituary: Ross Wentworth Green M.D., 81, of Clearwater Drive, formerly of West Auburn, died Sunday at Maine Medical Center, Portland. Born in Summerside, Prince Edward Island, a son of Alexander Ross and Margaret Shaw Green, he attended schools in Falmouth, Mass., and graduated from Lawrence High School in 1934. He attended the University of Virginia and earned his B.S. degree from Boston University in 1940. He graduated from Tufts Medical School and received his medical degree in 1944. Dr. Green served an internship and surgical residency at Boston City Hospital and additional residencies at Memorial Hospital, Worcester, Mass., and Pondville Cancer Hospital, Walpole, Mass. After Boston's Coconut Grove night club fire in 1942, Dr. Green had the opportunity to assist in the treatment of burn victims. The experience inspired a life-long interest in the treatment of burns. Medically deferred from military service, Dr. Green was employed by Harvard Medical School during World War II. There, under contract with the Office of Scientific Research and Development as a surgical researcher, he began learning more treating burns. Dr. Green's work on treatment of burns and shock was acknowledged by the military as being of ''great importance in the general program of research on problems of military surgery.'' Dr. Green did his surgical preceptorship at Central Maine Medical Center with the late Dr. William V. Cox, and received his certification from the American Board of Surgery in 1947. In March 1951, he opened his own practice in Auburn for general surgery, specializing in burns and cancer. He held surgical privileges at St. Mary's Hospital and Central Maine Medical Center, Lewiston, Stephens Memorial Hospital, Norway, and Miles Memorial Hospital, Damariscotta. AT CMMC he served as chief surgeon of the General Surgical Section, director of the Cancer Clinic and director of Burn Services. Dr. Green also received training at the internationally renowned burn-treatment facility at Brooks Army Medical Center, San Antonio. In the early 1970s, he helped to develop Maine's first state burn unit in collaboration with the late Dr. Richard Britton, former chief of the General Surgery Department at Maine Medical Center. Dr. Green retired from practice in 1977, but was employed as a medical consultant with Medicare B in Portland and Biddeford from 1978 to 1988, and with the Maine Bureau of Rehabilitation Disability Determination Services at Augusta from 1980 to 1985. A fellow of the American College of Surgeons, he also held senior membership in the New England Surgical Society, Maine Medical Association, Androscoggin County Medical Society and American Burn Association. Dr. Green was fascinated with ships and the ocean, and was widely known as a builder of museum-quality model ships. His models are owned by collectors coast to coast. He was an avid hockey fan, and also enjoyed golf, reading, researching and spending time with his grandchildren. A daughter, Martha Nancy Green, died in 1978. Surviving are his wife, Anna Goodspeed Green of Falmouth; a son, Ross of Cumberland; two grandchildren, Emily and Ryan Green of Falmouth; two sisters, Mildred Goodspeed of Portland and Gladys Baltz of Falmouth, Mass.; three nieces, Nancy and Margaret Goodspeed of Portland and Connie-Fitzgerald-Desmond of Connecticut; two nephews, Dick and David Fitzgerald of Florida. Services will be private. Burial will be at Gracelawn Memorial Park, Auburn. Arrangements are by The Fortin Group/Plummer and Merrill Funeral Homes, Lewiston/Auburn. Portland Press Herald (ME) - June 19, 1998

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