Historical perspectives of The American Association for Thoracic Surgery: Evarts A. Graham (1883-1957).

摘要

Evarts Ambrose Graham, the 10th president of The American Association for Thoracic Surgery (AATS), was born in Chicago on March 19, 1883 (Figure 1). He graduated from Princeton in 1904, where he developed his deep interest in surgery: "To do major surgery, to engage in research work, and to have a clinic of younger men who would be interested in studying and developing ideas."1 He subsequently received his medical degree in 1907 from Rush Medical College, where his father was on the surgical faculty. He then cut an atypical pathway to a surgical career. After medical school, he spent 1 year in a pathology fellowship, after which he worked several years in independent study of chemistry and physiology. Nevertheless, he began in private practice general surgery in 1915, but that experience-his observation of ghost surgery and fee-splitting-was disappointing and unsettling. He resolved to address these problems of private practice surgery and eventually did so later in his career as a regent of the American College of Surgeons.