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Archive > August, 2008 Vol. IX, No. 8

Editor's Page

C'mon, Surgeons Can't Be This Bad

Dan O'Connor, Editor-in-Chief

If we are to believe everything that we read, then surgeons must be a bunch of dirty, rotten scoundrels: greedy, hot-tempered malcontents you wouldn't spit on if they were on fire. We know this not from what many of you have shared with us about the docs you love to loathe, but from three reports released last month that paint surgeons as:

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