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Ann Thorac Surg 2006;82:1567-1569
© 2006 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

Our Surgical Heritage

Dr Andrew Logan: The Passing of a Pioneer

John A. Odell, MB ChB, FRCS(Ed)*

Mayo College of Medicine, Jacksonville, Florida

* Address correspondence to Dr Odell, Mayo Clinic Section of Cardiothoracic Surgery, 4500 San Pablo Rd, Jacksonville, FL 32224 (Email: odell.john@mayo.edu).

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On September 9, 2005, Andrew Logan, a pioneer in cardiothoracic surgery and an honorary fellow of the American Association for Thoracic Surgeons, died at the age of 98 years. Hereafter follows a description of my exposure to this fine man who will be missed by me and by others who knew him.Figure 1


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  		Dr Andrew Logan at approximately 70 years of age.

 
In 1976, I embarked on my training in cardiothoracic surgery in Durban, South Africa. I was very fortunate to be exposed to two excellent thoracic surgeons: Andrew Logan and Benjamin Le Roux. Le Roux was the head of the department, but the roles had been previously reversed. Previously Logan had been head of thoracic surgery at the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary until his "retirement in 1972," and Le Roux had been his senior registrar as a resident in the United States for 11 years; in those days progression to consultant status in the United Kingdom depended on politics and the death or retirement of the person occupying the consultant position.

Those who were training could not have chosen a better place to train and to later work. We worked out of two hospitals [1, 2]. At Wentworth hospital there were approximately 100 cardiothoracic beds of which half were for cardiac surgical patients; King George V hospital (our other hospital) was a 1,700 bed tuberculosis hospital where more chronic infected patients were lodged. Here there were 110 thoracic surgical beds including a 30-bed ward for chronic empyema patients and a 30-bed male ward for the 20 new patients with carcinoma of the esophagus who were admitted weekly. We were all extremely busy. Two bronchogram lists of as many as 5 to 8 patients each were done at each hospital and were reviewed at our weekly Saturday morning . . . [Full Text of this Article]






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