M. Gage Ochsner

As one of the best friends I've ever known, I still miss Gage often and still smile every time I think of him. On the boxes below, of the question : How did you know M. Gage Ochsner, I tried to check Friend AND Work AND School, because they were all true. But only allowed to check one box, Friend was an easy choice. A brilliant and caring physician and surgeon, great father and family man.......As far as this world goes, he was taken far too soon.

I know this is a late message but it needs to be said and I hope his family sees it. I trained under Dr. Ochsner in Savannah in 2005-2007. He was so encouraging and such a great role model. I rewatched my graduation video recently and broke down into tears when I saw he was the one who hooded me with my MD degree. We learned so much from him-what it means to be a full scope doc. Caring at home, in the community, serving others before self. I admire him then, and now. I will never forget...

Not only was Dr. Ochsner a gifted trauma surgeon, he was an exceptional person. His medical knowledge and skill saved my 17 year old daughter in 2006; his positivity and presence saved me. He never let me doubt that I would one day have my daughter Charlee back. And he was right...
Thank you to his family who shared him with us. Forever missed by so many of us

Dr.Ochsner took painstaking care of my 16 yo niece when she had traumatic brain injury from an MVA. As a RN I observed not only his expertise but his amazing compassion. He was the epitome of physician excellence.
Fifteen years later my niece thrives and is a successful young woman. Dr. Ochsner will always be dearly remembered.

Ne obliviscaris. "Forget not".

We the Edenfield family are so sorry and so shocked at the loss of this wonderful man and doctor we call our hero. Big daddy O is what my husband Darren Edenfield called him and the reason for that is because He saved my husbands life in 2009.Dr ochsner preformed 3 major surgeries on my husband and they formed a friendship not just a dr patient relationship. we found out that my husband will be needing surgery again and we were so happy to be going to see Dr o this past week on Jan.6 2014 and...

I just read of Dr. Ochsner's passing. I had the privledge of first meeting Dr. Ochsner at the Southern surgical meeting where he served as invited discussant on my research. He was approachable and considerate particularly as I was a resident at the time. From that point forward I saw him at several additional conferences and he greeted me with enthusiasm whenever I ran into him. I did not know him well, but the brief interactions I had with him made a lasting impression. The surgical...

Dear Mrs. Ochsner,

I was a classmate of Gage at Tulane and have seen him at surgical meetings. I was sorry to read of his death in the American College of Surgeons bulletin this month.
He accomplished a lot and is 59 years and was an outstanding representative of Tulane Medical School.

Sincerely,

Thomas Hendrick, MD, FACS

I am so sorry for your loss to the family of such a wonderful man. Dr. Ochsner saved my son's life on July 28th of 2008. We just found out today of Dr. Ochsner's passing from a another wonderful Dr. name Dr. Miles whom he taught at Memorial and is a physician at Piedmont hospital in Atlanta GA, what a small world. I wasn't surprised that she spoke kindly of him because that was who I had the pleasure of meeting on that awful day in July, when my sons were fitting for there lives and Deon was...