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C. Everett Koop with "Chickie", an orangutan at the Memphis Zoo
C. Everett Koop with "Chickie", an orangutan at the Memphis Zoo
Koop operated on the orangutan one day after his birth in 1981. Zoo officials named the primate "Chickie" in honor of the surgeon, "Chick" Koop, who saved him.
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