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Development of a Surgical Research LaboratoryExperience at the Chelsea Naval Hospital in Collaboration with the Lahey Clinic
CAPT. ALEXANDER C. HERING, MC;
ELTON WATKINS, Jr., M.D.
AMA Arch Surg. 1960;80(4):533-540.
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The surgeon is becoming increasingly aware of his role as a physiologist and of the part a broad biological perspective plays in improving his ability to care for his patients. To meet this need, any institution, military or civilian, charged with the responsibility for training surgeons in a residency program today must have ready access to a laboratory primarily concerned with surgical problems and under the control of the training department. Day-to-day contact with modern investigative methods (as well as techniques of certain complex modern operations) can be obtained only in such a workshop. Laboratory experience is vital to the maturing of the young surgeon, in addition to the effect it has in stimulating the more experienced ones. A surgical trainee may improve his manual dexterity and his understanding of emergency situations. The laboratory also provides an opportunity to develop the critical biological approach so necessary in a field where
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Author Affiliations
U.S.N.; Chelsea, Mass.
Member of Surgical Staff, U.S. Naval Hospital (Capt. Hering); Consultant in Surgery and Physiology, U.S. Naval Hospital, and Member of Surgical Staff, The Lahey Clinic, Boston (Dr. Watkins).
Footnotes
Submitted for publication Aug. 12, 1959.
Aided by grants from the Lahey Foundation and the National Heart Institute, U.S. Public Health Service (H-3803).
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