Abstract

Raised in a small Georgia town, Charles Ross Hatcher Jr was trained by surgical legends Alfred Blalock and Francis Moore and developed into a superior cardiac surgeon at Emory University. Years before others, as President of the Southern Thoracic Surgical Association (1983-1984) and The Society of Thoracic Surgeons (1986-1987), he recognized and spoke of the challenges facing medicine and our specialty. He focused in the last half of his career on the delivery of value in patient-centered health care and participation in the governance of health care.

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