Becoming a surgeon is one of the greatest careers within a man or women’s life. Any given surgeon preforms an estimated 398 surgeries per year varying based on specialty. Although this is a significant accomplishment it is the work of Dr. Robert Parry of Akron Children’s Hospital who has caught the attention of many colleagues and families around the world. Parry is a Pediatric surgeon, director of pediatric surgery, and director of trauma services who utilizes both his talents with a scalpel and his talents with a pen to assure a child that their surgical scar is not the lasting memory that remains of their surgery.
Parry’s accomplishments thus far include graduating from Cornell University, completing a surgery residency in Maryland at the National Navel Medical Center later to serve in the U.S Navy Medical Corps. Parry continued by arriving to Massachusetts General hospital for his research surgical fellowship, as well as Los Angeles for a fellowship in pediatric surgery. Parry received a Navy Commendation Medal during his time in active duty.
Beginning in 2011 Parry took his talents to Akron Children’s Hospital where he opted to begin drawing images on the dressing where the scar will reside to give a smile to the child’s face at the end of a given case. As of 2018, Parry has completed an estimated 10,000 drawings. Parry noted that he likes to give the children he operates on something that he takes his time on, to say to those children that they are not just another person he performs surgeries on, that instead they are actual human beings, and that he gives each of them a piece of him in return.
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