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Ashby C. Moncure, MD

Arch Surg. 2001;136:376-382.

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INTRODUCTION

I would like to express my deep appreciation to the members of the New England Surgical Society for the privilege of serving as its president during the past year. The New England surgical community is, in my opinion, the finest in the world, making this office an especially high honor.

I would also like to acknowledge my family, my wife, Pat, and my children and grandchildren for their love and support throughout the years, and my surgical colleagues at the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) for their friendship and help for the past 40 years.

At an early age, I was exposed to my most important role model: the nephew of my paternal grandfather, Dr C. Bruce Morton II, clinical professor of surgery at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville and an interim chair of its Department of Surgery (Figure 1). My admiration for Dr . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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