RT Book, Section
A1 Sugarbaker, David J.
A1 Bueno, Raphael
A1 Burt, Bryan M.
A1 Groth, Shawn S.
A1 Loor, Gabriel
A1 Wolf, Andrea S.
A1 Williams, Marcia
A1 Adams, Ann
SR Print(0)
ID 1170399664
T1 Foreword
T2 Sugarbaker’s Adult Chest Surgery, 3e
YR 2020
FD 2020
PB McGraw-Hill Education
PP New York, NY
SN 9781260026931
LK accesssurgery.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1170399664
RD 2024/04/19
AB The  honor  and  pride  I  felt  when  first  invited  to  write  the  foreword  to  this  textbook  is  tempered  only  by  my  feelings  of  profound  sorrow  and  loss  for  the  editor  and  creator,  my  dear  friend  and  colleague,  David  J.  Sugarbaker.  When  David  passed  in  August  of  2018,  he  had  just  turned  65  years  old,  far  too  young  for  such  a  monumental  and  energetic  force  in  thoracic  surgery  to  leave  his  profession.  Larger  than  life,  he  was  one  of  the  most  prominent  surgeons  in  our  field.  Enter  his  name  in  any  web  browser  and  you  will  encounter  superlatives  such  as  outstanding,  iconic,  greatest,  master,  mentor,  role  model,  pioneer,  innovator  and  scientist.  His  prescription  for  life  was  embodied  in  the  phrase  “clarity  of  purpose  and  focused  attention,”  the  leitmotif  of  his  career.