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The Worthwhileness of a Career in Surgery

Clement A. Hiebert, MD

Arch Surg. 1989;124(5):530-534.

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The title of my essay is the name of a town a long way Down East, and my subject is the joy of surgery, the magic stuff, the grail that once moved every doctor in this room to become a surgeon and that even now beckons through the jading mists of tedium and time. Strip away the corrupting dullness and look afresh at our profession. I contend it to be the most splendiferous of all professions and will argue this: first, with a distant mirror on medical adventuring in a remote island setting and, second, with a hand lens applied to three wonders of the surgeon's world, wonders of the body, mind, and spirit.

THE SURGEON'S CHARMED LIFE IN A REMOTE SETTING

Come with me to Newfoundland, where, during the summer between the third and fourth years at Harvard Medical School, classmates, Jerry Foster and Arnold Nevis, and I first . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
From the Department of Surgery, Maine Medical Center, Portland.

Footnotes
Accepted for publication December 14, 1988.

Presented as the Presidential Address at the 69th Annual Meeting of the New England Surgical Society, Montreal, Canada, September 17, 1988.

Reprint requests to Department of Surgery, Maine Medical Center, 22 Bramhall St, Portland, ME 04102 (Dr Hiebert).

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