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Adson still felt a need to protect patients against those medical men whom he accused of having "surgical genes-an inborn bias in favor of surgery." To this, Surgeon Kenneth W. Warren of Boston's Lahey Clinic replied: "We're a bit more aggressive than Mayo's in cutting out silent stones." The difference stirred Florida Surgeon John J. Farrell, moderator of the Miami gallstone session, to cite an overseas situation at the University of London. There, Internist Sheila Sherlock is a leading opponent of surgery on silent stones, but Surgeon Rodney Smith, who operates on most...
...mere existence of the procedure arouse false hope in patients for whom no donor heart could be found? Is it better to die after long hospitalization and distressing drug treatment, with a transplanted heart, than to die a little earlier with one's natural, inborn heart? What hope does the immediate future offer for longer and healthier survival...
...ORIGINAL SIN. The concept that every human inherits Adam's guilt has increasingly been challenged by a counterview: "original sin" is man's inborn weakness, but the only sins for which a man can be held accountable are those committed of his own free will. Not so, said Paul: "We believe that in Adam all have sinned." The Pope specifically reaffirmed a pronouncement by the Council of Trent, which maintained that original sin is transmitted "not by imitation but by propagation...
Exact cause of death has not yet been determined. Heart specialists conjectured that death was caused by an inborn misconception of format: The Lampoon's rigid structure, dominated by the short story form, inhibited free circulation of wit and frustrated doctors' attempts to heal...
After centuries of speculation, most of it idle and all of it profitless, typical gout was recognized in 1931 as an "inborn error of metabolism," indicating that something was wrong with the patients' enzyme systems. But what? Although it was easy to show that victims had an excess of uric acid in their blood, the metabolic pathways by which it got there remained hidden in the biochemical jungle. Then in Baltimore, Pediatrician William L. Nyhan Jr. and Dr. Michael Lesch saw two retarded brothers with the palsy and biting symptoms. It has since been learned that a substance...