A tribute to james thornton willerson, M.D.
A tribute to james thornton willerson, M.D.
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向医学博士詹姆斯·桑顿·威尔森致敬
DOI：
10.1093/cvr/cvaa292
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发表时间：
2020
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10.8
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Marian,Aj
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Marian,Aj
“我是吉姆·威尔逊。他用简单的话和柔和而平静的声音向那些有幸见到他的人介绍了自己。这个名字令人钦佩，因为他是一个家喻户晓的名字。他是得克萨斯州的传奇人物，不仅对他的专业同事，而且对他的德克萨斯同胞。对于他的病人来说，他是一位充满希望的奥斯勒医生。他照顾他们，不管他们的医疗问题的性质。他是他们的忠实拥护者，并安排了最好的照顾。他爱他们每一个人，每一个人都是上帝的存在，每一个灵魂和每一个病人都是宝贵的。他的病人崇拜他，并支持他努力推进心血管科学。他是一个真正的德州人。他喜欢德克萨斯的一切，包括他著名的牛仔靴和他的狩猎旅行。他出生并成长于“德克萨斯州的中心地带，那里的夜晚星星又大又亮”。他的父母是医生，也是他早期的榜样。他的父亲达雷尔·威尔森医生沿着他出诊，教他如何认真照顾病人。在那里，在德克萨斯州的中心地带，他学会了照顾个人的艺术，他为此而奋斗，关怀成为他人文主义医学方法的标志和基本品质。他热情地练习弗朗西斯W。皮博迪坚信“照顾病人的秘密在于照顾病人”。正是他的母亲埃莉诺·威尔森（Eleanor Willerson）博士将她14岁的儿子介绍给传奇心血管外科医生丹顿·库利（Denton Cooley）博士，决定了他成为一名心脏病专家的命运。在德克萨斯州的圣安东尼奥，如此年轻的时候，那次决定性的会议毫无疑问地让他成为了一名世界知名的心血管医学医生。他就读于德克萨斯大学奥斯汀分校的本科学习。作为一名本科生，他获得了无数的荣誉，这使他一生都对该机构保持忠诚和承诺。他是这个机构的骄傲。与库利博士在年轻时的决定性会议提供了在贝勒医学院进行医学培训的动力，在那里他奠定了与库利博士持久关系的基础。几十年后，他们建立了德克萨斯心脏研究所，在那里他开发了世界级的研究项目，库利博士在那里进行了1000多例心脏移植手术，发明了人工心脏，并开发了治疗心血管疾病患者的新手术技术。他对德克萨斯州的忠诚是坚定不移的。在马萨诸塞州总医院和哈佛医学院完成心脏病学培训后，他回到德克萨斯州担任领导。领导对他来说是自然的。这是他的基因。再加上他的远大理想，团结所有力量对抗心血管疾病的理想。他曾在得克萨斯大学西南分校和休斯顿得克萨斯大学健康科学中心任教。作为大学校长，他建立了机构，建立了项目，并招募了世界级的科学家。他是分子医学研究所的创始人。他坚信，从基础科学的发现中，将产生预测、预防和治疗心血管疾病的知识。他喜欢探索。他是一个无所不能、富有创新精神的调查员。许多人影响了他的研究生涯。马萨诸塞州总医院的著名内科医生兼科学家埃德加·哈伯博士的指导下，他对发现不稳定冠状动脉粥样硬化斑块的免疫学基础充满了热情。在与他的杰出团队的合作中，他在分子和临床水平上取得了发现，从...
‘I am Jim Willerson’. He introduced himself in simple words with a soft and calm voice to those who had the privilege of meeting him. The name triggered admiration, as he was a household name. He was a legend in Texas, not only to his professional colleagues, but also to his fellow Texans. To his patients, he was the Oslerian physician with full rays of hope. He took care of them, regardless of the nature of their medical problems. He was their dedicated advocate and arranged for the best care. He loved every one of them, everyone was God’s being, and every soul and every patient was precious. His patients adored him and supported him in his endeavour to advance cardiovascular sciences. He was a true Texan. He loved everything Texan, including his famous cowboy boots and his hunting trips. He was born and raised ‘deep in the heart of Texas, where the stars at night are big and bright’. His parents were physicians and his early role models. His father, Dr Darrel Willerson, took him along when he made house calls and taught him how to earnestly care for the patients. There, deep in the heart of Texas, he learned the art of caring for the individual, and he marvelled at it. Caring became the hallmark and the essential quality of his humanistic approach to medicine. He passionately practiced Francis W. Peabody conviction that ‘for the secret of the care of the patient is in caring for the patient’. It was his mother, Dr Eleanor Willerson, who sealed his fate in becoming a cardiologist when she introduced her 14-year old son to Dr Denton Cooley, the legendary cardiovascular surgeon. That fateful meeting at such a young age in San Antonio, Texas left no doubt that he would become a world-renown physician-scientist in cardiovascular medicine. He attended The University of Texas in Austin for his undergraduate studies. His numerous accolades as an undergraduate student left him a lifetime of loyalty and commitment to the institution. He was the pride of that institution. That fateful meeting with Dr Cooley at the young age provided the impetus for pursuing medical training at Baylor College of Medicine where he laid the foundation of an ever-lasting relationship with Dr Cooley. Decades later, they built the Texas Heart Institute, where he developed world-class research programs and where Dr Cooley performed over 1000 heart transplants, invented artificial hearts, and developed new surgical techniques for treatment of patients with cardiovascular diseases. His loyalty to Texas was unwavering. Upon completion of his training in cardiology at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, he returned to Texas to lead. Leadership was natural to him. It was in his genes. It was coupled with his huge vision, the vision of unifying all forces against cardiovascular diseases. He led at The University of Texas Southwestern and at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston. As the President of the University, he built institutions, established programmes, and recruited world-class scientists. He was the founding father of the Institute of Molecular Medicine. He had the strong conviction that from the basic science discoveries will come the knowledge to predict, prevent, and cure cardiovascular diseases. He loved discovering. He was an omnipotent and innovative investigator. Many people influenced his research career. The mentorship of Dr Edgar Haber, a prominent physician–scientist at Massachusetts General Hospital, instilled the passion to discover the immunological basis of unstable coronary atherosclerotic plaques. In collaborations with his brilliant team, he led to discoveries at the molecular and the clinical levels, ranging from …