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  1. Edwin Darracott, Vaughan Jr., MD, MD

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Unintended Consequences: But OK

 

A to B, B to A, and so on until Walton and Vaughan

 

at University of Virginia Physical Diagnosis Class

 

Axillary nodes, told not uncommon, do not worry

 

Classmates tease until biopsy

 

Hodgkin's Disease, now classmate avoidance

 

Read one book no treatment so stopped reading

 

Irradiation-Nitrogen Mustard with success

 

Fourth year career decisions

 

Wise mentors: do what you want then, no regrets

 

Urology-Vanderbilt Surgery Residency

 

Shock: new nodes Kaplan from Stanford visitor

 

Mantle treatment cure

 

Thirty years at Weill Cornell-New York Presbyterian Hospital

 

Family career academic Urology the best

 

Retire to Wyoming to rest but sudden shortness of breath

 

To NYC Aortic and mitral disease with CHF

 

Unintended consequences but OK

 

Good team Good care

 

Now pig and cow valves for a broken heart

 

So back to Wyoming to roll in the mud and graze in the field

 

And watch the deer and the antelope play

 

EDWIN DARRACOTT VAUGHAN, JR., MD, is Emeritus Professor of Urology at Weill-Cornell Medical College. He writes that soon after he retired after 30 years as Chair of Urology and Senior Associate Dean for Clinical Affairs he went into congestive heart failure, with valvular damage from prior irradiation for Hodgkin's Disease. Now more than six months recovered after successful surgery, he is enjoying life in Sheridan, Wyoming.