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Another Surgical Doyen Who Died Too Soon

Eddie L. Hoover, MD

Arch Surg. 2005;140:1036-1037.

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INTRODUCTION

When I joined the faculty at State University of New York–Brooklyn (Downstate), Bernard Jaffe, MD, had a very organized system involving visiting professors in which each faculty member received the guest in his or her own office for a private meeting. I am confident that many of these sessions resulted in mentoring relationships that exist to this day. Such was the case with Dr Organ and me after he visited Downstate in the early ‘80s. Early in this mentor-mentee relationship, I learned that when Dr Organ called you and asked you to send him your CV, bibliography, reprint, or whatever, he was proffering you to some organization, association, or event, although he would never tell you what he was up to. He also taught me to be thorough and exhaustive in my research before promoting anyone for anything because he loathed not being successful on the . . . [Full Text of this Article]

AUTHOR INFORMATION

Author Affiliations: Department of Surgery, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Buffalo, NY.

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