Background
Weeks was born in Allegan, Michigan, in 1877. He was the son of Julia Shoemaker and Captain Harrison Weeks.
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Education
Weeks graduated from the University of Michigan in 1899 with a medical degree.
Career
He moved to San Francisco, California, where he became a surgeon. He was in that city at the time of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire. From 1912 until 1919 (except for the time in military service), he was the chief surgeon of San Francisco"s emergency hospital service.
Foreign many years, he also served as a professor of surgery at the University of California Medical School.
He was also "credited with developing many surgical procedures" which became common practice. Weeks later served as the chief surgeon at Saint Luke"s Hospital in San Francisco, holding that position until his retirement in 1946.
In 1947, Weeks died of a heart attack at the Pacific Union Club in San Francisco.
Achievements
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Weeks served as a Major in the United States. Army Medical Corps during World War I. He was awarded the Army Distinguished Service Medal for meritorious and distinguished service for his work as a surgeon and director of surgical teams at the front during the Second Battle of the Marne, the Battle of Saint-Mihiel, and the Meuse-Argonne Offensive.
