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Josep Trueta
Catalan scientist
For the hospital, see Josep Trueta Hospital.
Josep Trueta i Raspall (27 October – 19 January ) was a Catalan surgeon and researcher from Spain.
Biography
Born in the Poblenou neighbourhood of Barcelona, Trueta came from a progressive minded family with medical and military backgrounds (his father was a doctor, his grandfather a military officer and his great-grandfather an Army surgeon).
In his youth he felt called to an artistic career, being very keen on painting, and excelled in sports like fencing, but ended up studying medicine in the University of Barcelona. In the s he temporarily moved to Vienna to further his studies and it was there that he focused on the development and application of innovative techniques for bone treatments, being considered because of this one of the fathers of modern traumatology.
He started applying his methodologies for the treatment of workplace accidents, being hired as Chief Surgeon for the "Caja de P
