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Ann Thorac Surg 2003;76:S2199-S2200
© 2003 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

Supplement: Gibbon & His Heart-Lung Machine

Remembering John H. Gibbon, Jr, MD

Rudolph C. Camishion, MDa*

a Department of Surgery, Cooper Hospital, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Camden, New Jersey, USA

* Address reprint requests to Dr Camishion, 1101 Cherry Lane, Cinnaminson, NJ 08077, USA.

Presented at the symposium, "Gibbon & His Heart-Lung Machine: 50 Years & Beyond," Philadelphia, PA, May 2, 2003.

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After completion of my surgical residency at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, Dr Gibbon invited me to remain on the full-time faculty at the Jefferson Medical College. I was given a small office, a laboratory, a secretary and technical help. I can't remember how it happened but I was soon making daily late-afternoon rounds with Dr Gibbon on his private patients. I covered him when he was away, which was often, at nights for emergencies and on weekends. I also assisted him on operations that he thought might be particularly difficult. This continued until he retired; thus over the years we became fairly close friends.

Doctor Gibbon took great pride in being a general surgeon although his forte was thoracic surgery. As an examiner for the American Board of Surgery he enjoyed quizzing candidates on fractures and was quite disturbed when they did not know much about that field. One time, when performing an abdominal procedure it turned out that the patient needed a hysterectomy. He stated that this was a relatively simple operation that he would do himself. The operation turned out to be quite exciting and I believe the end result was that he lost enthusiasm for gynecologic surgery. While assisting, I learned never to say that a pulmonary tumor was probably nonresectable as this seemed to challenge him to prove that I was wrong. That in turn also led to some exciting operations.

After the world's first successful open heart operation using total cardiopulmonary bypass, he performed two more procedures using the machine. Both patients . . . [Full Text of this Article]






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