Georges Marion

Georges Marion was a French surgeon and urologist, born on 1 June 1869 at Fixin in the Côte-d'Or and died in Paris on 17 October 1960. He became an interne of the Paris hospitals in 1892, then aide of anatomy in 1894 and prosector in 1896. He took his medical doctorate in 1897 and the next year became chief of clinical surgery at the Hôtel-Dieu. In 1900 he was appointed chirurgien des hôpitaux and soon afterwards gained an associate professorship at the medical faculty in Paris. His name is attached to Marion's disease, described as a congenital obstruction of the posterior urethra. He also contributed to suprapubic prostatectomy and is credited with modifying Joaquín Albarrán's procedure of nephropexy, known as nephropexy ad modum Albarran Marion.