Surgical Renaissance in the HeartlandThe golden era in American surgery, described by a young doctor practicing under innovator Owen Wangensteen at the University of Minnesota In 1960, fresh out of a stint in the Air Force, Henry Buchwald was recruited by Dr. Owen H. Wangensteen to join the Department of Surgery at the University of Minnesotas medical school. For an American born in Austria, a child of the Holocaust, a position in a city then considered by some to be the anti Semitic