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James C. Thompson, MD

Arch Surg. 2005;140:1045.

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INTRODUCTION

Other contributors to this collective paean for Claude Organ will cover his immense formal contributions to American surgery: at the college, at the board, as academic chair, and as editor nonpareil of these ARCHIVES. Few, actually very few, leaders have been more innovative, enlightened, enthusiastic, and committed to the improvement of surgical learning and practice as he.

The remarks that follow are personal. I have had the privilege of knowing Claude for 30 years, and as fellow Texans and fellow liberals (not exactly an oxymoron—nor, in fact, much of a crowd), we talked a lot. He would phone or I would phone, and we would consider the verities. We talked about evolutions in technical surgery, about surgical education in South Africa (after a visit to Johannesburg, he sent Dilip Parekh to our laboratory), about operating on celebrities, about investing (he told me to buy . . . [Full Text of this Article]

AUTHOR INFORMATION

Author Affiliations: Ashbel Smith Professor of Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Tex.

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