Obituary: A Remembrance: Gael R. Frank (1930-2012)

摘要

Gael R. Frank MD, long-time member of the Association of Bone and Joint Surgeons~R, passed away in his home on August 26, 2012 at the age of 82 from Parkinson's disease. Gael's boundless passion for knowledge made him the ideal surgeon and educator. In 1964, Gael was part of a five-man surgical team that reimplanted the arm of Bob Swaffer, a 20-year-old Oklahoma State University basketball player. Swaffer was washing his jeans when he reached into a high-powered dryer in the team's athletic department laundry room and accidentally severed his arm. He was rushed to Oklahoma University Medical Center (OUMC) where Gael and four other surgeons reimplanted the arm in a 6-hour operation [1]. Gael and the surgical team gained national attention for their replantation surgery, and were even featured in Science Year: The World Book Science Annual, 1965, an annual supplement to the World Book Encyclopedia.