‘Plant a tree for posterity in the orchard of your profession.’—Owen H. Wangensteen
Oh my, oh my,” one of Owen H. Wangensteen’s favorite comments may well have been the first words he said out loud on opening the second rejection by a respected surgical journal of his paper on nasogastric intestinal suction for bowel obstruction. “Fiddle, faddle,” another favorite comment, may have been the first words he wrote—the man