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Then I watched the video again, and there - in the Reader's Digest clip - was Dr. Ochsner's name. Pause the video when the page appears, and you will see his name in the article on the left hand side. Dr. Alton Ochsner, Sr. (prounounced "Oksner"
was a New Orleans surgeon who first campaigned against the dangers of cigarettes. When I was 19, I trained as a surgical tech at Ochsner Foundation Hospital and had the privilege of assisting on cases with three of his sons: Alton, Jr. (known as "Ocky" , Mims (nephrologist), and John (cardiologist), who was a pioneer in the use of the heart/lung machine and heart transplants. I am pretty sure that there was another son, but he did not perform surgery; I think his specialy was radiology, although I could be mistaken here.
I assisted Dr. Ochsner, Sr. on just one occasion - a breast biopsy that happily turned out to be benign - which was the last surgery he performed. He was 70 years old, and he had a strict rule that all surgeons at his hospital had to retire at 70. He felt that older than 70 was too old to be doing surgery, and he followed the rule himself.
Dr. Ochsner wrote more than one book on the dangers of smoking, although I don't know if they are still in print.
His wife was a lovely, gracious lady who sadly and ironically succumbed to lung cancer herself, although she had never smoked. She had a cancer different from the variety that usually afflicts smokers.
This was all back in the late sixties. Dr. Ochsner was such a great man that I could not bear to see him not being credited for his extremely important contribution.
