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Hospital Truism. In hospitals all over the U.S., surgeons now make a routine performance of lifesaving procedures so radical that they were almost unimaginable a few years ago. There is hardly a place in the human body that surgeons have not been, hardly an operation too daring for themi to perform; yet the surgical patient can face his ordeal with more confidence than he ever could before. Per haps the proudest measure of the surgeon's success is the built-in assurance of today's hospital truism: "If they can operate, you're lucky...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Surgery: The Best Hope of All | 5/3/1963 | See Source »

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