Codman (Ernest) is born in Boston.

The son of William and Elizabeth Codman, Ernest Codman graduates from Harvard College and Harvard Medical School, and goes on to become a noted shoulder surgeon and crusader for higher medical standards and record keeping. Dissatisfied with medical procedures at Massachusetts General Hospital, he opens his own hospital in 1911,* creates a controversy in Boston medical circles in 1915.* Codman dies on November 23, 1940 and is buried at Mount Auburn Cemetery. Two weeks before his death, trustees at MGH, which had begun to adopt his ideas, pass a resolution calling Codman “[A] champion of truth . . .willing to sacrifice personal place and standing to achieve what he believed to be right.”