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Fifteen years ago, a number of young men joined me in an effort to create a new Department of Surgery in Chapel Hill. Several others joined us later. There was very little to offer these men in terms of facilities, only an idea. They all had extraordinary concern for excellence in academic medicine, and … Read morehttps://www.med.unc.edu/surgery/wp-content/uploads/sites/854/2018/09/1952faculty.jpg