Officially, Bill Silen, the Johnson and Johnson Professor of Surgery, emeritus, stepped down in 1994 from his long-held and much-celebrated post as Chief of Surgery at Boston’s Beth Israel Hospital and professor of surgery at HMS. Yet, even now, at least two mornings a week, sometimes three, he gets up at “doctor” time, hops into his blue Toyota and heads off to Beth Israel Deaconess to do what he most likes to do: to mentor, guide and advise.
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