Jim McCutchon grew up in New Orleans. He is a fifth generation New Orleanian, but when he had completed his schooling and his postgraduate training in 1958, he decided to move to Corpus Christi, Texas, to open a solo practice of Urology. Ironically, his first wife, Jeanne Ferris McCutchon, who grew up in Corpus Christi, wanted to stay in New Orleans. Jim describes his decision as testosterone poisoned. He wanted to be his own man, and he wanted to prove himself as he had never done anything but school and training. Making a reputation and building a practice were a struggle for him, but even more a struggle for Jeanne. At the time of the move, she had three children and a newborn baby. She never complained to the time of her death in 1998.

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Jim did build a solo practice, and Jeanne was able to move into a house big enough for her family in 1965. There were eight children by then. No, there weren’t any more.