Historical perspectives of The American Association for Thoracic Surgery: Julian Johnson (1906-1987).

摘要

Julian Johnson, the 43rd president of The American Association for Thoracic Surgery (AATS), reminisced about his career and his introduction to thoracic surgery in his presidential address entitled "A surgeon and something more" on April 9,1963.1 He noted that, during his surgical training in the early 1930s, the prestige and reputation of the field of thoracic surgery were not uniformly high. While a surgical resident in Philadelphia, he heard a local thoracic surgeon state that he did not want to be known as a thoracic surgeon because he did not think he could earn a living in thoracic surgery alone. Johnson also noted that during the developmental stage of thoracic surgery, it was inevitable that the early members of the association were general surgeons who had taken an interest in thoracic surgery hoping to develop the field further.