Leslie Rush

Leslie Vaughn Rush was an American surgeon, born in Meridian, Mississippi on 16 February 1905, who helped change the treatment of bone fractures. He studied at the Tulane University College of Medicine and in 1927 joined the staff of the hospital his father had founded in Meridian. In 1936 he performed what is described as the first known bone pinning in the United States, and the method led to the Rush pin, an implant still in use. In 1944 he joined Catherine Hovious and the school superintendent H. M. Ivey and Meridian Junior College in starting the first junior college and hospital nursing program in Mississippi. He followed his father, his uncle and his older brother into medicine, and he died in February 1987.