Tom Shires

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. G. Tom Shires (22 November 1925 - 18 October 2007) was an American trauma surgeon. He is known for his research on shock, which initiated the current practice of giving saline to trauma and surgical patients. He operated on John Connally and Lee Harvey Oswald after the assassination of John F. Kennedy.Born in Waco, Texas, USA, Shires was brought up in Dallas. He graduated from Woodrow Wilson High School (Dallas, Texas) in 1942 and thereafter gained a B.S. degree from the University of Texas (1944), and an M.D. degree from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School (1948).He was married to Robbie Jo Shires; the couple had a son and two daughters. Shires died of gastrointestinal cancer at Henderson, Nevada in 2007.