Dr. Randall McNally, who died July 25 at age 92, treated 9-year-old Phan Thi Kim Phuc, known worldwide as the “Napalm girl” during the Vietnam War.
Dr. Randall McNally was a plastic surgeon at Rush University Medical Center who developed innovative surgical techniques and for many years was the on-call “cut doctor” for the Chicago Blackhawks, treating everything from broken jaws to shattered cheekbones during games.
Born in Chicago, McNally grew up in the South Side Gresham neighborhood. His father, Edward McNally, owned and operated a company that installed garage doors in the Chicago area. McNally held jobs from a young age, delivering the Saturday Evening Post and working as a soda jerk at a drugstore on South Ashland Avenue.
McNally earned a medical degree in 1955 from St. Louis University Medical School, then did his residency at what now is Rush University Medical Center, followed by two years at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, where he treated airmen returning from Vietnam. “His desire to help people is why he became a surgeon,” said McNally’s son, Thomas, who is director of spine surgery at Weiss Hospital in Chicago. “His motivation for his high level of achievement was borne out of his childhood — he excelled at the things that he attempted to do, and he loved working with his hands. The things that he could do with a baton as a child, he then translated into surgical technique.
A documentary crew brought McNally and Kim Phuc together in 1996. Ever the practitioner, McNally again examined Phuc’s scars at that time. But Magnuson wanted to return to the game so badly that he rose and began trading punches with Thayer, McNally recalled.
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