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...bellowed Ochsner...
...same bull-throated voice, Al Ochsner demanded of the class: "Why did he pop out?" At which point several other students would have been glad of a merciful faint...
...Ochsner, normally well-modulated in tone, was promptly dubbed "the bull of the bullpen." He recalls now: "My purpose was to teach students how to think under stress. They must learn to think quickly and correctly, and to back up every decision they make. Later, in practice, they will often have a waiting room full of patients when a man comes in whom they have never seen before...
...Ochsner's bullpen clinics made the impression that he wanted. That was in 1927. Now some 3,000 physicians, graduated from his surgery classes, are practicing in Louisiana and neighboring states. He has done much to boost the level of medi calpractice throughout the Deep South, and thus fortified a great Tulane tradition. For its chair of surgery is the most noted south of St. Louis and one of the most influential...
Indispensable Man. By the time Ochsner took over, conditions were vastly different from that January Monday in 1835 when eleven students gathered before Dr. Thomas Hunt, a ripe young 26, in a Unitarian church, to start the first medical school in all the Louisiana Purchase territory. Over conservative Creole (Sorbonne-trained) opposition, Dr. Hunt and his successors built a good regional school in a city which in three years (1833-35) had had 19,000 deaths in a population of 50,000-caused largely by typhoid, cholera and yellow jack...