John L. Ochsner, 1927-2018

Dr John Lockwood Ochsner will be remembered as a charismatic physician, a dedicated teacher, a  loving father, and a role model for the hundreds of surgeons he trained. He was revered as an innovative, energetic, and talented surgeon, performing over 12,000 operations, including the first cardiac transplant in the Gulf South. He always said he was happiest in the operating room and loved tea ching young resident surgeons. He believed that “surgery is an art as much as a science. You have to improvise almost every case – no two cases are the same – and that's where the fun of surgery comes in, making something new that particular moment that you've never seen before … It's like o pening up a package; it's always a little different.”—Dr Larry H.
Source: Journal of Vascular Surgery - Category: Surgery Authors: Tags: Pioneers in vascular surgery Source Type: research