Who is Doc O?

Doc O’s full professional name is Ronald B. O’Gorman, MD, PhD, FACS, FACP, RVS.  In a later post, I’ll explain what all those letters mean. Most of my patients just call me Doc O. In Honduras, they call me Dr. Ron. My kids call me Pop. My nieces call me Uncle Ronnie. Back in Texas, I used to say, I didn’t care what you call me as long as you didn’t call me late for supper.

I’m a doctor whose practice centers on the treatment of Cardiovascular Diseases. I’m a first-generation heart surgeon, having had the privilege to train with Dr. Michael E. DeBakey and his associates who invented many of the procedures that I’ll chat about here. Currently, I work with five other surgeons in Mobile, AL. We perform surgery of the heart, lung and blood vessels, and we treat patients with a variety of cardiovascular and thoracic diseases.