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Memorial |
University of South Alabama Medical Center Mobile, AL 36617
A long and distinguished radiology career ended with the death of Louis Raider in Mobile, AL, on January 31, 1999. Dr. Raider was born on September 7, 1913, in Chattanooga, TN, but grew up in New York City. He worked his way through school with one or more full-time jobs ranging from theater usher in Brooklyn to waiting tables at Coney Island and in the Catskills. (Endowed with unusually large hands, Raider later enjoyed demonstrating how he could carry and serve a dozen dishes off one arm.)
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After serving as a civilian radiologist at the Armed Forces Induction Station in New York City, Raider was on active duty as chief of radiology of two army hospitals between 1944 and 1947, rising to the rank of major. (One of his younger colleagues in the army was Melvin M. Figley, now Editor Emeritus of the AJR.)
In 1947, again a civilian, Raider became chief of radiology at the New Orleans Veterans Affairs Hospital. However, in 1950, he left New Orleans to join in a partnership with Monte Lauter as the fourth practicing radiologist in Mobile, AL. After Lauter's untimely death, Raider became the leader of a hospital and office practice group that eventually grew to include 10 radiologists.
Raider was involved in many professional and community activities and organizations. He was chief of radiology at Providence Hospital for 26 years. He was elected president of his temple. The Mobile Press-Register awarded him the M. O. Beale Scroll of Merit, and he was a fellow of the American College of Radiology, councilor from Alabama, and president of the Alabama chapter of the American College of Radiology, which gave him its highest honor, the Silver Medal, in 1989. Raider was a fellow of the American College of Chest Physicians and served as chairman of the section on radiology of the Southern Medical Association. He was particularly proud of his membership in the American Roentgen Ray Society, acquired at a time when it was an elitist organization with stringent entrance requirements.
Even while in private practice, Raider loved to teach. He held appointments as clinical instructor of radiology at Louisiana State University Medical School (1947-1950) and visiting lecturer in radiology at Tulane Medical School (1961-1979) in New Orleans. Appointed clinical associate professor of radiology at the new College of Medicine at the University of South Alabama in 1976, he was promoted to clinical professor only 2 years later. On retirement from his private practice group in 1987, Raider immediately accepted a major role at the University of South Alabama Medical Center, working mornings 5 days a week supervising radiology residents' work in emergency and intensive care radiology and in the general reading room.
Raider had the sharpest eye for conventional radiographs of anyone I have ever known and he enjoyed sharing his observations with others. He was the author or coauthor of 23 scientific articles and five scientific exhibits, 10 of which he produced after he turned 70 years old. In his 1986 Caldwell lecture [1] on "Armchair Research and the Practicing Radiologist," Ben Felson used Raider as an exemplar, citing his original work and publication on the retrotracheal triangle (Felson called it Raider's triangle).
Failing vision forced Raider's final retirement in 1997. He remained mentally alert and reasonably healthy until shortly before his death. He is survived by Emma, his adored wife of 58 years; a son; two daughters; two granddaughters; one great grandson; and many friends, colleagues, and former residents.
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