The No. 1 guardian of the standards of U.S. surgeryand, incidentally, of the prerogatives of surgeonsmade a shocking charge last week. Said Dr. Paul R. Hawley, director of the American College of Surgeons: "It is reliably estimated that today one-half of the surgical operations in the U.S. are performed by doctors who are untrained or inadequately trained to undertake surgery." One of "the most distinguished surgeons in the world" (whom he would not identify) had told him, said Dr. Hawley, that at least half his current practice "consists of attempts to correct the bad results of surgery ... by doctors inadequately...
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