Mr. Speaker, it is my sad duty to report to the House that we lost a pioneer in medicine this weekend down in Dallas: Dr. Charles Baxter , a surgeon whose research in clinical skills saved thousands of lives over the years. Dr. Baxter will be remembered for a lot of things back home, not the least of which was his treatment of a severely burned patient and his introduction of very aggressive fluid management in the initial hours after the burn had occurred, saving countless patients from going into acute renal failure, dealing with what was then one of the principal causes of death in the severely burned patient. It was reported in the newspaper this weekend that Dr. Baxter , in an effort one time to bring the spirits up of a young 8-year-old girl who had been burned over 92 percent of her body, brought an Airedale puppy into the burn unit at Parkland. He scrubbed it down with antibacterial cleanser and brought the girl a new reason to continue on in her struggle to recover from her burn. I remember Dr. Baxter when I was a resident down in the operating room. He had a heart attack a few days before, but was down there in the wheelchair in the surgery office barking out orders to his residents at the surgery board to keep them on schedule. And, of course, the country remembers Dr. Baxter . From that terrible day in November of 1963, Dr. Baxter was the head of the emergency room when John Kennedy was brought into the facility at Parkland Hospital. Mr. Speaker, all of us in Dallas and across the country mourn the passing of Dr. Baxter , and our thoughts and prayers will be with his family during this time. Watch Video