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Until 4 a.m. on Ash Wednesday, stocky (5 ft. 8 in.), moderate-drinking (scotch) Alton Ochsner, a bouncing 51, carried out his carnival duties. As. Rex, King of the Carnival, he wore a white satin suit, high white kid boots and bejeweled cloth-of-gold robes. But at 7:30 a.m.-an hour and a quarter later than usual-he was on the job in white surgeon's gown at Prytania and Aline Streets. Dr. Ochsner's real job is director of Ochsner Clinic...
Busy Man. Working an 18-to-20-hour day is routine to Dr. Ochsner. He is also head of the department of surgery at Tulane University, and of the clinic's parent organization, the Ochsner Medical Foundation. He is editor of International Surgical Digest, co-editor of Surgical Magazine, author of 250 scientific articles. Since Surgeon Ochsner and four Tulane colleagues started the clinic in 1941, it has treated 70,000 patients. Among them are many Latin American millionaires and government officials who find Dr. Ochsner and New Orleans simpático. Other Ochsner patients: the late Senator Theodore...
...Ochsner Clinic began with ten beds for diagnostic purposes, now has 220 in three buildings, a medical staff of 62 (mostly from Tulane), helped by some 200 interpreters, nurses, technicians, orderlies. Polite attention to private physicians who send patients to the clinic has warded off gripes that often plague group practice clinics; careful attention to the patient as a person on the diagnostic assembly line has won the clinic the name, "Mayo of the South...
...Ochsner innovation is the special recovery room to which patients are taken immediately after operations. Each bed is piped for oxygen; emergency equipment like blood plasma is at hand; nurses are always in the room; relatives and friends are kept out. The room is Ochsner's pride...
Busman. South Dakota-born Dr. Ochsner, married and the father of four, says that his only real hobby is his work. Once in a long while he goes trout-fishing in Madison River, Idaho. His trips to Latin America are a busman's holiday: on a 1941 junket to Panama, he gave 29 lectures at Gorgas Memorial Institute, did 40 operations at Santo Tomas Hospital...