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August 17, 1967
Dr. William Mandel, Director
Clinical Services & Medical Education
Highland General Hospital
2701 14th Ave
Oakland, California 94606
Dear Dr. Mandel
I thank you for your recent note concerning the position
of Chief of General Surgery in your hospital, and the material
about the Highland General Hospital that I find most interesting.
I have written to the California State Board of Medical Examiners
in Sacramento coneerning the licensure.
I would like to inquire what the administrative hierarchy
is as I note that Dr. B. E. Adams is the Chief of Surgical
Services. I would be also interested to know something about
the interrelation between the thoracic-cardiac and vascular-ceneral
surgical services, Does your hospital have some kind of a
University affiliation? What are the experimental, laboratory
facilities and the research budget, if any.
You may wish to correspond with the following gentleman
with or under whom I worked, Dr. Owen H. Wangensteen, Professor
of Surgery, University of Minnesota Hospital, Minneapolis, Minn,
Dr. Richard C, Lillehei, Assoctlate Professor of Surgery, Department
of Surgery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minn; Dr. John
Perry, Professor of Surgery and Chief Department of Surgery, Anker
Hospital, St. Paul, Minnesota; Dr. C. Walton Lillehei, Professor
of Surgery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minn.
As you probably know Dr. C. Walton Lillehei accented the
position at Cornell in New York and thus may be hard put to
correspond with.
Sincerely
Karel B. Absolon, M.D.
KBA:bc