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Ken,

Heartfelt congratulations on your latest and - as always - well deserved honor!  You have been a valued mentor and teacher to many, including this writer.  You have taught us ethics, the reliance on truth and honesty, and above all, to question everything that could affect how we care for the patients we are privileged to care for, so that we never become complacent, and always look for a better way!

Well done, my friend!

All the best,
Ron

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From: trauma-list-bounces at trauma.org [mailto:trauma-list-bounces at trauma.org] On Behalf Of KMATTOX at aol.com
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Subject: Regimental Order of Critical Care Surgeons

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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