Unintended Consequences: But OK

A to B, B to A, and so on until Walton and Vaughan

at University of Virginia Physical Diagnosis Class

Axillary nodes, told not uncommon, do not worry

Classmates tease until biopsy

Hodgkin's Disease, now classmate avoidance

Read one book no treatment so stopped reading

Irradiation-Nitrogen Mustard with success

Fourth year career decisions

Wise mentors: do what you want then, no regrets

Urology-Vanderbilt Surgery Residency

Shock: new nodes Kaplan from Stanford visitor

Mantle treatment cure

Thirty years at Weill Cornell-New York Presbyterian Hospital

Family career academic Urology the best

Retire to Wyoming to rest but sudden shortness of breath

To NYC Aortic and mitral disease with CHF

Unintended consequences but OK

Good team Good care

Now pig and cow valves for a broken heart

So back to Wyoming to roll in the mud and graze in the field

And watch the deer and the antelope play

EDWIN DARRACOTT VAUGHAN, JR., MD, is Emeritus Professor of Urology at Weill-Cornell Medical College. He writes that soon after he retired after 30 years as Chair of Urology and Senior Associate Dean for Clinical Affairs he went into congestive heart failure, with valvular damage from prior irradiation for Hodgkin's Disease. Now more than six months recovered after successful surgery, he is enjoying life in Sheridan, Wyoming.