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Presidential Address

Edwin W. Salzman, MD

Arch Surg. 1985;120(7):771-776.

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.¹

Author Affiliations
From the Department of Surgery, Beth Israel Hospital, and Harvard Medical School, Boston.

Footnotes
Accepted for publication Jan 25, 1985.

Read as the presidential address before the 11th annual meeting of the New England Society for Vascular Surgery, Dixville Notch, NH, Oct 12, 1984.

Reprint requests to Department of Surgery, Beth Israel Hospital, Boston, MA 02215 (Dr Salzman).

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