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The Friendship Between Alton Ochsner and Mims Gage
Arch Surg. 2000;135:607.
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IN THE DEEP South the friendship between Alton Ochsner and Mims Gage is legendary. They were great teachers at the Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, La, and were partners in practice for many years. Their friendship seemed unlikely since one's background was the upper Midwest, and the other was from the deep South. Further, their personalities were almost opposites. Ochsner was quite proper in dress and speech. He was compulsive, organized, and disciplined. He always seemed to be in complete control of himself and of any situation in which he found himself. Once Dr Ochsner lectured in Mobile, Ala, on the relationship between cigarette smoking and lung cancer. Afterward someone stated that he had found that patients with rectal cancer were more likely to be smokers. Could Dr Ochsner explain that? Ochsner replied that he could not, unless people in Mobile inhaled much more deeply than those in . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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