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Margaret M. Kosiba

Arch Surg. 2005;140:1029-1032.

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INTRODUCTION

I first met Dr Organ in 1973 while attending nursing school at the University of Nebraska College of Nursing (Omaha). He was the chair of surgery at Creighton University School of Medicine; I was transcribing reports in the medical records department at St Joseph’s Hospital (Creighton’s main teaching hospital) by night and studying by day. He asked me to meet with him because he had heard and observed that I was typing his surgery residents’ research papers on a department typewriter in my spare time and not charging the residents for this service. In the interview, he recognized qualities in me that were the foundation for his career in American surgery: passion for work and the need to help others. Needless to say, the next day we were players on the same team.

I recognized immediately that Dr Organ was like no other person I had ever . . . [Full Text of this Article]

AUTHOR INFORMATION

Author Affiliations: Division of Transplant, University of California, San Francisco.