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Wednesday, 02 August
Roger Wilcox, 83
Professions: Cardiovascular, thoracic and general surgeon in private practice in Paradise Valley, Ariz.; organized and operated a surgical residency program at the Miner’s Memorial Hospital in Beckley, W. Va., where his studies of lung disease in coal miners helped lead to the first "Black Lung" laws; served in the Army in 1951, as a surgeon at the 8063 M.A.S.H. in Korea (with some of his exploits immortalized in the book, movie, and TV series “MASH”).
Degrees: Graduated from the University of Montana; M.D. from Harvard Medical School, 1948.
Death: July 30, 2006, of complications from congestive heart failure.
From the Arizona Republic.
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