Sabiston Textbook of Surgery

Ethics and Professionalism in Surgery

“The intimacy between patient and surgeon is short-lived, but closer than between a son and his own father.” Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Cancer Ward The privilege of opening the body of another to manipulate, remove, repair, or implant is a profound endeavor…

The Rise of Modern Surgery:: An Overview

“If there were no past, science would be a myth; the human mind a desert. Evil would preponderate over good, and darkness would overspread the face of the moral and scientific world.” Samuel D. Gross (Louisville Review 1:26–27, 1856) The…