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Arch Surg. 2005;140:1021.

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Claude H. Organ, Jr. MD, 1926–2005
Editor, Archives of Surgery, 1989–2004

The artwork in the background is adapted from an original image by Max Brödel. The original artwork resides in the Max Brödel Archives, Art as Applied to Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Md.