A graduate of Yale in 1938, and P&S in 1942, Dr Auchincloss took his graduate training in surgery under Dr Allen Whipple, and then spent two years in the Armed Services as a Naval officer. On his return in 1946, he was appointed to the attending staff by Dr George Humphreys with the Columbia title of Assistant Clinical Professor. For the next decade he taught and practiced surgery exclusively at the Medical Center. In 1956, he and his family moved to New Jersey, and thereafter, his busy practice became centered at Valley Hospital in Ridgewood. Until retirement, however, he maintained limited teaching responsibilities at Presbyterian.
Like his father before him, Hugh Auchincloss was a skilled and innovative surgeon, but he was perhaps best known for the scrupulous care he gave his patients. In this respect he was a role model for many of us. His interests were focused largely on breast and vascular surgery. When his father died in 1947, Hugh carefully analyzed the large number of radical mastectomies done by Hugh, Senior, and came to the heretical conclusion that the patients in question would have been better served by a less mutilating procedure. Preaching against the conventional Presbyterian (Haagensenian) doctrine took courage, and some eyes were raised, but his strong stand was vindicated 15 years later by the NIH and the American Cancer Society who publicly advocated modified mastectomy as the preferred treatment for breast cancer. His willingness to adopt unorthodox positions led to his resignation from the AMA because of its opposition to Medicare. And, in the mid-60s, before grass roots rebellion against the War in Vietnam had taken form, Dr Auchincloss indirectly expressed his discontent about the War by volunteering his surgical services to the citizens of that beleaguered country.
Hugh’s life outside of medicine was full and rewarding. He was a gifted and competitive athlete, sailing, skiing, playing tennis and golf when time permitted. An accomplished woodworker, his manual dexterity was given vent at home as well as in the OR.
Happily married to Lawrence Bundy, the youngest of Boston’s Bundy tribe Hugh fathered four children. It’s gratifying to note that the Auchincloss legacy in surgery has not ended -- his son Hugh is now working at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston as a Harvard Associate Professor of Surgery. -Dr Frederic Herter
in John Jones Surgical Society Newsletter, Spring 1999
Like his father before him, Hugh Auchincloss was a skilled and innovative surgeon, but he was perhaps best known for the scrupulous care he gave his patients. In this respect he was a role model for many of us. His interests were focused largely on breast and vascular surgery. When his father died in 1947, Hugh carefully analyzed the large number of radical mastectomies done by Hugh, Senior, and came to the heretical conclusion that the patients in question would have been better served by a less mutilating procedure. Preaching against the conventional Presbyterian (Haagensenian) doctrine took courage, and some eyes were raised, but his strong stand was vindicated 15 years later by the NIH and the American Cancer Society who publicly advocated modified mastectomy as the preferred treatment for breast cancer. His willingness to adopt unorthodox positions led to his resignation from the AMA because of its opposition to Medicare. And, in the mid-60s, before grass roots rebellion against the War in Vietnam had taken form, Dr Auchincloss indirectly expressed his discontent about the War by volunteering his surgical services to the citizens of that beleaguered country.
Hugh’s life outside of medicine was full and rewarding. He was a gifted and competitive athlete, sailing, skiing, playing tennis and golf when time permitted. An accomplished woodworker, his manual dexterity was given vent at home as well as in the OR.
Happily married to Lawrence Bundy, the youngest of Boston’s Bundy tribe Hugh fathered four children. It’s gratifying to note that the Auchincloss legacy in surgery has not ended -- his son Hugh is now working at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston as a Harvard Associate Professor of Surgery. -Dr Frederic Herter
in John Jones Surgical Society Newsletter, Spring 1999
A graduate of Yale in 1938, and P&S in 1942, Dr Auchincloss took his graduate training in surgery under Dr Allen Whipple, and then spent two years in the Armed Services as a Naval officer. On his return in 1946, he was appointed to the attending staff by Dr George Humphreys with the Columbia title of Assistant Clinical Professor. For the next decade he taught and practiced surgery exclusively at the Medical Center. In 1956, he and his family moved to New Jersey, and thereafter, his busy practice became centered at Valley Hospital in Ridgewood. Until retirement, however, he maintained limited teaching responsibilities at Presbyterian.
Like his father before him, Hugh Auchincloss was a skilled and innovative surgeon, but he was perhaps best known for the scrupulous care he gave his patients. In this respect he was a role model for many of us. His interests were focused largely on breast and vascular surgery. When his father died in 1947, Hugh carefully analyzed the large number of radical mastectomies done by Hugh, Senior, and came to the heretical conclusion that the patients in question would have been better served by a less mutilating procedure. Preaching against the conventional Presbyterian (Haagensenian) doctrine took courage, and some eyes were raised, but his strong stand was vindicated 15 years later by the NIH and the American Cancer Society who publicly advocated modified mastectomy as the preferred treatment for breast cancer. His willingness to adopt unorthodox positions led to his resignation from the AMA because of its opposition to Medicare. And, in the mid-60s, before grass roots rebellion against the War in Vietnam had taken form, Dr Auchincloss indirectly expressed his discontent about the War by volunteering his surgical services to the citizens of that beleaguered country.
Hugh’s life outside of medicine was full and rewarding. He was a gifted and competitive athlete, sailing, skiing, playing tennis and golf when time permitted. An accomplished woodworker, his manual dexterity was given vent at home as well as in the OR.
Happily married to Lawrence Bundy, the youngest of Boston’s Bundy tribe Hugh fathered four children. It’s gratifying to note that the Auchincloss legacy in surgery has not ended -- his son Hugh is now working at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston as a Harvard Associate Professor of Surgery. -Dr Frederic Herter
in John Jones Surgical Society Newsletter, Spring 1999
Like his father before him, Hugh Auchincloss was a skilled and innovative surgeon, but he was perhaps best known for the scrupulous care he gave his patients. In this respect he was a role model for many of us. His interests were focused largely on breast and vascular surgery. When his father died in 1947, Hugh carefully analyzed the large number of radical mastectomies done by Hugh, Senior, and came to the heretical conclusion that the patients in question would have been better served by a less mutilating procedure. Preaching against the conventional Presbyterian (Haagensenian) doctrine took courage, and some eyes were raised, but his strong stand was vindicated 15 years later by the NIH and the American Cancer Society who publicly advocated modified mastectomy as the preferred treatment for breast cancer. His willingness to adopt unorthodox positions led to his resignation from the AMA because of its opposition to Medicare. And, in the mid-60s, before grass roots rebellion against the War in Vietnam had taken form, Dr Auchincloss indirectly expressed his discontent about the War by volunteering his surgical services to the citizens of that beleaguered country.
Hugh’s life outside of medicine was full and rewarding. He was a gifted and competitive athlete, sailing, skiing, playing tennis and golf when time permitted. An accomplished woodworker, his manual dexterity was given vent at home as well as in the OR.
Happily married to Lawrence Bundy, the youngest of Boston’s Bundy tribe Hugh fathered four children. It’s gratifying to note that the Auchincloss legacy in surgery has not ended -- his son Hugh is now working at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston as a Harvard Associate Professor of Surgery. -Dr Frederic Herter
in John Jones Surgical Society Newsletter, Spring 1999
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