He said, “Call anytime,” hours before he went into hospice. If only I could. If only the scores – hundreds, probably thousands – of friends of one of the most extraordinary figures in modern orthopedic medicine could call him anytime, or even once more.
But Freddie Fu, the longtime chair of Orthopaedic Surgery at the Pitt School of Medicine and UPMC and a global giant in the medical world, died las…