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An Exemplary Heritage

Arch Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 2005;131:561-563.

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INTRODUCTION

Hayes Martin was born on a small farm in northwestern Iowa (Dayton) on June 24, 1892. From these small beginnings he became the leader in the development of surgical treatment and management strategies for a kind of cancer that very few surgeons would operate on in those days. Now the members of our Society treat it successfully every day. Back in those days, the unfortunate patients who had this type of cancer would undergo primitive radiation and radium therapy, with dismal results in most cases.

To learn about the beginnings of this exemplary surgeon, I rented a plane and visited his small home town and former farm. I spent hours in the newspaper morgue reading about his beginnings and trying to get insight into the motives and drives of this great leader and a founder of our Society.

Hayes Martin was 1 of 7 children of Swedish immigrant parents. When . . . [Full Text of this Article]

AUTHOR INFORMATION

James T. Helsper, MD

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