John M. Agee M.D.

You changed my life in 1976 when I was 18 years old. I had nerve damage and constant stinging, burning pain in my right arm that wouldn't go away. You performed an operation, that at the time was risky. It was a sympathectomy. When I woke up in the recovery room, the pain was gone. Period... it never ever came back!!! I'm in my 60's now and still think fondly of John Agee. God bless your soul.

Dr. Agee took the time to teach me and made me a better surgeon

I was shot in the army decades ago and had some complications with my leg and foot. My mother had been an army nurse in World War II and she and I left the Navy hospital in Orlando, feeling strongly that what surgery they wanted to do would not work. Through a circuitous series of connections, I was referred to Dr. Paul Brand in Carville, Louisiana in about 1976. Dr. Brand told me he was training a young physician that showed great promise and he introduced me to Dr. Agee. It turns out mom...

I met Dr. Agee around 1977. I was enrolled in the Biomedical Engineering Masters Program at Cal State University Sacramento. I was looking for a topic for my Masters Thesis when our paths crossed. John had a theory concerning the extensor tendons of the MP joints. He and I worked on this topic to conclusion. He presented the findings of our study at the annual Hand Society Meeting at the AAOS in 1980. He was very proud of our work. He also sent me to Carville to work at the USPHS...

So sorry to hear about John. I worked with him at the Hansen´s Disease Hospital at Carville, Louisiana when he was affiliated with Dr. Brand, Dr. Riordan, Judy Bell,CHT and others. He was a genius.

So sorry to learn of Dr. Agee´s passing. He had such a brilliant mind and was always a gentleman. One morning many years ago he took time out of his crazy busy schedule to teach Joann Sibley and myself the beautiful intricacies of the hand extensor tendon system. When we arrived he welcomed us and then as a true gentleman helped us off with our jackets and hung them in the closet, all while chatting with his Louisiana accent. He was a patient teacher and it helped me immensely throughout...

I met John Agee and his trusty nurse, Elaine Spong, when I was fresh out of PT school in 1980. I was working at Mercy Hospital and he was the only doctor that took the time to stop and introduce himself to me. In 1983 I had a complicated ulnar nerve injured patient and I referred him to John. John always told others, that he was so impressed with my eval of this patient, that he offered me a position as his hand therapist in his office. I said, but I don't know anything about hand therapy!...

Dr. Agee was a kind man and a wonderful doctor. As a fellow aviation nut and RC airplane hobbyist, he was wonderful to talk to and reassuring to me as his patient.

John, thanks for letting me pretend to fly your plane and teaching me about hospital administrators. Godspeed! Chris