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18. Owen Harding Wangensteen
18. Owen Harding Wangensteen
Pages 354-365
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His insatiable curiosity, questioning mincI, boundless energy, unselfishness, and uncommon human sympathy made him uniquely suited to a career in academic medicine and specifically, in surgery. As a researcher he made substantial contributions to current knowledge about the causes of appendicitis, cIarifiect problems concerning intestinal obstructions at various levels of the bowel, and provide(1 important insight into the mechanism of peptic ulcer formation and the control of gastric secretion.
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To establish (against conventional wisdom) that the pathophysiological mechanism was elevated intraviscus pressure, which caused irreversible damage by obstructing capillary blood flow to the intestinal mucosa, Wangensteen and his students clevisec!
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surgeon-inchief of University of Minnesota Hospitals, a post he would hoIcl for the next thirty-seven years. Almost immediately his graduate program in surgery achieved a remarkable popularity, and for those aspiring to a career in academic surgery, appointment as a house officer in his department remained a coveted prize throughout his tenure as surgeon-in-chief.
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(l happened to choose physiology, a cliscipline Owen Wangensteen favored as being most appropriate for prospective academic surgeons.) Since Wangensteen himself participated in the training of many of his surgical students, ~ had the opportunity to become familiar with both his scientific work and his eclucational philosophy.
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She took it and subsequently enjoyed another eight years of pain-free life. Owen Wangensteen was equally selfless and forwardthinking with regard to his personal gain from private practice, as is shown by two policies he devised to insure the viability and health of the surgical research and graduate studies programs under his direction.
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But with the current drastic reduction of public support, interest on the part of the private sector is of even greater importance to the health and vigor of science. The substantial financial benefits Owen Wangensteen's selfless devotion to surgical research brought to his institution and his department show how much a single in~lividual can influence private philanthropy.
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abroad. Elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1966, he was also an honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, Scotland, and Ireland; an honorary member of the Hellenic Surgical Society, the Norwegian Academy of Sciences, the French National Academy of Medicine, the Argentine Surgical Society, the Societe Internationale de Chirurgie, the international Aca(lemy of History of Medicine, and a corresponding member of the German Surgical Congress.
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, Hamline University, Marquette University, and the University of Athens. He also served as president of a number of medical organizations, including the Minnesota Medical Foundation (1948-1954)
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Have the adrenal glands a specific detoxifying function in intestinal obstruction?
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Day et al. The development of interarterial intercoronary anastomoses by an arteriovenous fistula between the pulmonary artery and left atrium.
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The effect of portacaval shunting on upper gastrointestinal blood flow.
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