Abstract :
Professor Martin H: son Holmdahl is the great man who introduced the concept of “Apnoeic Diffusion Oxygenation”1 into clinical anesthesia. During his visit to the American University of Beirut, I was indeed lucky when Professor Holmdahl MH invited me to his Department of Anaesthesiology, University Uppsala, Sweden. I was also, doubly honored and surprised when the internationally famous Professor asked me not to call him Professor Holmdahl, “call me Martin and I call you Anis”. His invitation to me to spend the first week of my visit with his family in the wonderful summer resort by the lake, was surely an over whelming hospitality.
