Medicine: Surgeon's Mike

"Many of our best surgeons and best teachers do not have the knack of talking while working, but that may be because of the lack of proper facilities to talk directly to the class while carrying out the surgical procedure. In visiting many of the large clinics of the country, it has always been noticeable to me that the surgeon who would talk to his audience and describe the pathology, technique, etc. always had an attentive group of listeners."

So observed Dr. Rafe Chester Chaffin, assistant professor of gynecology in the College of Medical...

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