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...charge was made to U.S. surgeons last week, by one of their number, when the American College of Surgeons convened in Manhattan. The speaker was Dr. Harold L. Foss, surgeon in chief of the Geisinger Memorial Hospital in Danville, Pa. Another surgeon publicly backed...
Surgery has become such a fad, some critics observed, that many an operation is now performed in hopes of finding out what ails the patient, or because the surgeon wants practice, or because a patient has a morbid desire to be cut open. According to Foss, a scandalously large number of operators have had little or no special training in surgery...
...license to practice medicine in this country," said Dr. Foss, "entitles its holder ... irrespective of his training ... .to attempt any operation irrespective of its magnitude and technical difficulties. . . . The glamor of surgery, the superior position the young doctor believes he will attain . . . are so alluring that it is often difficult for the recent graduate to resist the temptation of plunging [unprepared] into surgery...
Irving G. Fine '37, associate professor of Music, and Lukas Foss, of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, both of whom perform on the piano, will be among the special guest artists featured at the concert. Nine University and Radcliffe musicians will complete the roster of performers...
While the Glee Club and Choral Society will appear only in the Stravinsky work, the Boston Symphony will perform a number of pieces, including a new composition by its pianist, Lukas Foss...