HOUSTON – A big congratulations to Dr. Kenneth Mattox, the chief of staff at Ben Taub General Hospital, who announced he will be retiring from his position there soon. This vision ultimately shaped what Ben Taub is today. During a 2018 interview, Dr. Mattox explained the hospital’s history of training military surgeons, a legacy that lives on today. “They would take their cellphone, put it into the wound and say ‘what do I do with this kind of injury?’” Dr. Mattox explained. “In the last five years, we’ve been the top three... of all the trauma centers in the United States!” Dr. Mattox said.