Into San Francisco last week streamed some 7,200 surgeons to participate in their profession's biggest shop-talking session of the year: the annual congress of the American College of Surgeons. Through a week of addresses and panel talks, they compared successes, discussed failures, reported on experiments, in the kind of fructifying and useful exchange that keeps a whole profession advancing on the heels of its specialists.
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