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Presidential Address

William H. ReMine

Arch Surg. 1981;116(5):505-507.

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The decade ahead will be one of change far more dramatic than in any other period in the history of our profession. Physicians and surgeons must be strong and resolute in their dedication.

In Gregg's Enigmas of Life he states: In the later years of life the intellectual vision, if often clearer, usually grows less confident and enterprising. Age is content to think, where youth would have been anxious to demonstrate and establish; and problems and enigmas which at thirty, I fancied I might be able to solve, I find, at sixty, I must be satisfied simply to propound.

This attitude of complacency is subtle and insidious; we must, therefore, resist the temptation to observe rather than participate.

There is no doubt that the great scientific and technical advances that have been made in medicine and surgery since the turn of the century offer the patient of today a far . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
From the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn.

Footnotes
Accepted for publication Jan 12, 1981.

Read before the 88th annual meeting of the Western Surgical Association, Salt Lake City, Nov 17, 1980.

Reprint requests to 200 First St SW, Rochester, MN 55905 (Dr ReMine).

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