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Arch Surg. 2000;135:488.

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IT WAS a brisk Saturday morning at 8 o'clock and Surgical Grand Rounds would begin momentarily. John E. Jesseph, MD, chairman of the Department of Surgery at Indiana University School of Medicine, in Indianapolis, usually said little at the beginning of the presentation; the speaker just walked up to the podium and proceeded with the talk. Today was different. In the past 48 hours, the headlines and lead stories of the newspapers and radio and television stations were obsessed with the kidnapping of hostages at the US embassy in Tehran, Iran. The government of the US had not yet released an official policy statement; but "Jack" Jesseph already had begun to formulate his response to the crisis.

Surgical Grand Rounds usually was well attended by the faculty, residents, and students and that morning the attendance was exceptional. Most of the group had already made clinical rounds on their patients and . . . [Full Text of this Article]