Dr. Raymond M. Atkins, a general and vascular surgeon who was a past president of the Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of Maryland, died November 13, 1992 of cancer at the University of Maryland Medical Center.
A native of Marlinton, W.Va., who was reared there and in Baltimore, he was a graduate of City College and attended several colleges under a World War II program for prospective naval officers.
The war ended before he completed the program, and he went on to graduate from the University of Maryland and its medical school. As an officer in the U.S. Public Health Service, he interned at the service's hospital in Baltimore.
From 1954 until 1956, he maintained a general practice in Chestertown, but decided to specialize in surgery and returned to Baltimore for a residency at Church Hospital before he opened another practice.
He was a physician in the National Guard and then in the Army Reserve, from which he retired as a command surgeon with the rank of colonel. His decorations included the Legion of Merit.
Dr. Atkins retired at the end of October after maintaining a surgical practice in Baltimore for a little more than 30 years. He was chief of staff at Church Hospital from 1975 until 1981 and had also been on the staffs of the Greater Baltimore Medical Center and Union Memorial, St. Joseph and Good Samaritan hospitals.
He was president of the Medical and Chirurgical Faculty, the state medical society, in 1989 and 1990. He was also a past president of the Baltimore City Medical Society. A diplomate of the American Board of Surgery, he was a fellow of the American College of Surgeons.
Fond of reading, especially about history and the Civil War, he also liked to hunt bear at his cattle farm in the Marlinton area. He was a member of the St. George's Society and the Society of the Sons of the Revolution.
Baltimore Sun, November 18, 1992
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