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Thank your for your compliment and congratulations on your productive  
career.    

k mattox

In a message dated 6/7/2009 5:34:33 P.M. Central Standard Time,  
wilmakeelan at sbcglobal.net writes:

Dr.  Mattox,

Congratulations on your induction to the Regimental Order  of Critical Care 
Surgeons. This is an honor and I know of no other Surgeon  more worthy than 
you for many, many reasons. It was indeed an honor to work as  an RN at Ben 
Taub Trauma Center where I learned so much from you. You were  always so 
kind to stop, talk and teach.

Wilma Keelan, RN,  BSN

--- On Sun, 6/7/09, KMATTOX at aol.com <KMATTOX at aol.com>  wrote:

From: KMATTOX at aol.com <KMATTOX at aol.com>
Subject:  Regimental Order of Critical Care Surgeons
To: ccm-l at ccm-l.org
Cc:  trauma-list at trauma.org, A.M.Batchelor at newcastle.ac.uk
Date: Sunday, June 7,  2009, 5:05 PM

To my ever tolerant and dear friends, especially  other members of  ROCCS:

I have been traveling of late and have  been derelict in not expressing my  
most sincere gratitude in being  inducted into the Regimental Order of 
Critical  Care Surgeons  (ROCCS).   This organization has a grand listing 
of   
leaders and members, but of relative limited  membership.   The  foundation 
of 
ROCCS is symbolized  by the "stone" of the ceremonial handshake  which is 
handed 
off like  a military coin as a token of the commitment of the new  member 
to  
the lifelong dedication to the culture and the over riding governing   
principles of this solid organization.  This "stone" is not a stone  at  
all, but 
is actually a piece of the Stone of Texas, a  fossilized  PALM.   This now 
RARE stone is in danger  of not being  found or discovered as there are 
limited 
supplies of  this very symbolic  icon.   My particular polished "ROCC"  is 
about 5 inches in diameter,  an especially  fine specimen of  this 
treasure.   
I have  long been a student of  fossilized sap which is sold around the 
world 
as "Amber",  coming in  yellow, orange, bronze, almost clear, and now newly 
discovered green   colors.    The ceremony which took place in Germany 
about   
weeks was serious and ritualistic.    For those who are   current members 
of 
this Regimental Order of Critical Care Surgeons, I am  truly  honored to 
among your presence.   There are  indeed many who are  undoubtedly more 
worthy, 
but none could be more  grateful than  I.    I look forward to the next 
meeting of  this special  group.   I actually have a suggestion for  the 
time and 
place of the  next meeting.     As  we all together work toward an  
Integrated 
Collaborative Trauma and  Critical Care System, what better location  that 
the new programs  built on the successes of the now relatively official 
JTTS   
established by the US Military Medicine, but in its ever modified  new  
horizons.     Indeed there is a new  alignment of the  constellations, 
stars, 
elements, ethers,  personalities, and energies to create  what might, in 
the 
future be  analogous to a new "star in the west" we shall look  forward to 
new  
insight, leadership, challenges, and  outcomes.   

Thank you for the opportunity to be a member of  ROCCS.  

Kenneth L. Mattox, MD
Houston

On this date  (actually yesterday, 28 May)
Dr. Kenneth L. Mattox, MD,  FACS,
was  inducted into the Regimental Order of Critical Care  Surgeons by COL  
Stephen F. Flaherty, MD, FACS, Trauma Consultant to the Surgeon   General, 
Chief of Surgery, Landstuhl Regional Medical Center,  Germany
Joint Theater Trauma System
in a brief ceremony  in which  he received the
traditional Petrified Palmwood (Palmoxylon sp)
following  Dr. Mattox's presentation  of
"The Da Mattox Code: An Analysis of the  Death of Princess  Diana" 
at LRMC Grand Rounds
joining other past  participants in the
Distinguished Visiting Surgeon Program  at  LRMC
including
Donald Trunkey,  MD, FACS
Thomas Scalea, MD,  FACS
James W. Dennis, MD,  FACS
Michael Rotondo, MD, FACS
David  Dawson, MD,  FACS
etc,  etc.

//SIGNED//
ROBERT C.  MARSHALL, Lt Col, USAF, MC
Staff  Internist, Lurker
435th Medical  Squadron (USAFE)
Landstuhl Regional  Medical Center, Landstuhl,  Germany

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