Is Surgery Worthwhile?
- 1 July 1985
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in Archives of Surgery
- Vol. 120 (7) , 771-776
- https://doi.org/10.1001/archsurg.1985.01390310009001
Abstract
The surgeon is sometimes despised by the intelligentsia of medicine as a mechanical craftsman. But though he be a hewer of wood and a drawer of water, he has the assurance that such skills are useful to mankind.1Keywords
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