Inventor, ‘American Journal of Orthopaedics’ Columnist Charles Sorbie Dead at Age 78

Orthopedic Surgeon Charles Sorbie, MB, ChB, FRCS(E), a columnist for the American Journal of Orthopaedics, recently died at age 78 from a skiing accident, according to a report by the Kingston Whig-Standard.

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A prolific inventor, Dr. Sorbie’s best remembered invention was an artificial joint, the Questor elbow.

Born in Scotland, he graduated from Glasgow University and obtained his FRCS(E) after an orthopedic surgery fellowship at Harvard, then became head of the department of Surgery at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ont., Canada.

Read Kingston Whig-Standard’s report on Charles Sorbie.

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