This Article  • References  • Full text PDF  • Send to a friend  • Save in My Folder  • Save to citation manager  • Permissions  Citing Articles  • Citing articles on HighWire  • Citing articles on Web of Science (1)  • Contact me when this article is cited  Related Content  • Similar articles in this journal  Social Bookmarking   What's this?

George L. Jordan, Jr, MD

Arch Surg. 1985;120(5):525-529.

	Since this article does not have an abstract, we have provided the first 150 words of the full text PDF and any section headings.

Election to the presidency of the Western Surgical Association is a unique experience granted to only a few surgeons within any generation. Acceptance of this honor brought with it a variety of emotional responses—surprise, pleasure, and, on contemplation, a special sense of humility. The Western Surgical Association, since its organization in 1891, has been dedicated to the highest surgical principles. Because of the carefully chosen, limited membership, all of the members of this society are, in my opinion, candidates for any of its offices, and selection to serve as their president from among so many highly qualified members is a very special honor.

When the society was first organized, its geographic boundaries were limited to a relatively small section of the Midwest, which included Kansas, Nebraska, Colorado, New Mexico, the Missouri cities of Iowa and Missouri, Oklahoma, and the Indian Territories.¹ Although I consider Texas one of the . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
From the Cora and Webb Mading Department of Surgery, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston.

Footnotes
Accepted for publication Jan 14, 1985.

Presented as the presidential address at the 92nd annual meeting of the Western Surgical Association, Colorado Springs, Colo, Nov 12, 1984.

Reprint requests to Department of Surgery, Baylor College of Medicine, 1 Baylor Plaza, Houston, TX 77030 (Dr Jordan).

CiteULike    Connotea    Del.icio.us    Digg    Reddit    Technorati    Twitter     What's this?