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Article: Columbus, Ga., doctor, a father of sports medicine, dies at 87.

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September 7, 2004
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By Richard Hyatt, Columbus Ledger-Enquirer, Ga. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Sep. 7--Jack Hughston could knot a bow tie without a mirror and repair a knee as easily as he tended his flower garden. He was one of the fathers of sports medicine but he preferred the old-shoe demeanor of a country doctor.

"I never heard him introduce himself as Dr. Hughston. It was Jack Hughston," said John Waldrop, one of his many proteges. "If it was a dog trainer or a yardman, he was Jack Hughston."

Hughston, the kindly face of the orthopedic clinic that bears his name, died Monday at his home after a three-year struggle with cancer. He was 87.

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