A Life: William C. Nugent, 1941-2021; ‘He believed in immersing himself in whatever he did’ Bill Nugent and his wife, Susan, on their boat, Escapade, last summer on Lake Champlain. (family photo) Bill Nugent with his bicycle. His yearbook photo from 1975 at Albany (N.Y.) Medical School. (family photo) Bill Nugent and his son Ross at a Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center picnic for heart surgery patients in the late 1970s. (family photo) Modified: 4/4/2021 5:48:29 PM MERIDEN — On the same day in September for years on end, a man from Ohio called into cardiothoracic surgeon Bill Nugent’s office at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center.