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Department of Surgery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA email: [email protected] Received October 21, 2016; Accepted November 14, 2016. Disclosure Information: Nothing to disclose. *Correspondence address: Edward D Verrier, MD, FACS, Department of Surgery, University of Washington, 1959 NE Pacific Ave, Seattle, WA 98020. John H Gibbon Jr Lecture presented at the American College of Surgeons 102nd Annual Clinical Congress, Washington, DC, October 2016.