Guido C. Currarino, MD, Dec. 17, 1920 – Dec. 20, 2015

Abstract

UTSW, supplying surgeons with elegant 3-D renderings drawn with wax on sheets of film to guide them in the operating room prior to the era of CT and MRI. He was irascible, humorous, demanding of excellence. He trained countless residents and fellows in the art of plain film diagnosis and scared a few speechless. Morning film interpretation sessions were never mundane or predictable. While many radiographs would pass scrutiny with no substantial commentary, on occasion Dr. Currarino would have a Eureka moment, grabbing the edge of the table while imploring "do you see it??" He would then jump up and off we would go to the radiology library or his office closet. After some dramatic muttering in English mixed with Italian and the tossing aside of books, journals, half-written manuscripts and the skeleton that graced his closet, he would then triumphantly retrieve a bound