Josep Trueta

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Josep Trueta i Raspall (1897–1977) was a Catalan medical doctor.

As a Catalan nationalist, he was forced into exile to England after the Spanish Civil War. During World War II, he helped to organize medical emergency services there. His use of a new method for the treatment of open wounds and fractures helped save a great number of lives during the war.

Trueta formed part of a group of Catalans exiled in the United Kingdom who denounced the situation of Catalonia under Franco's regime. He wrote The Spirit of Catalonia, a book aimed at explaining Catalan history to English-speaking society.

He was Professor of Orthopaedics at the University of Oxford. He retired in 1966, and returned to Catalonia.

The main hospital of Girona was named in his honour.