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Karen E. Deveney, MD
Portland, Ore

Arch Surg. 2004;139:584-585.

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It was a most peculiar and unworkable site for a railroad switching yard: atop a steep hill overlooking a river, with a picture-perfect volcanic mountain rising starkly on the eastern horizon 50 miles away. But the price was right. The property had been purchased site unseen, for a nominal sum, by the Oregon-Washington Railroad and Navigation Company. Over 130 years later, one of the nation's most vibrant, picturesque, and upwardly mobile academic medical centers is the beneficiary of that ill-thought-out purchase.

Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU), formerly the University of Oregon Medical School, is one of the oldest medical schools in the West. Dating from 1887, the medical school was initially located in downtown Portland but moved to its current Marquam Hill site in 1919 after the dean, Dr Kenneth Mackenzie, persuaded the railroad company and the C. S. Jackson family to donate a total . . . [Full Text of this Article]