Medicine: Shop Talk for Surgeons

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.

...

Want the full story?

Subscribe Now

Subscribe
Subscribe

Learn more about the benefits of being a TIME subscriber

If you are already a subscriber sign up — registration is free!