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Orlo H. Clark, MD

Arch Surg. 2009;144(9):800-805.

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INTRODUCTION

As the 2009 president of the PCSA [Pacific Coast Surgical Association], I am honored to welcome you here today. In 1974, when I was a junior faculty member at UCSF [University of California at San Francisco], I was fortunate enough to attend my first meeting of this society on the island of Maui, Hawaii. Because of the enthusiastic friendship evident among its members and the outstanding quality of the scientific meeting, I knew immediately that this was a group to which I would want to belong. Today, the PCSA continues to represent an exemplary society of community and academic surgeons.

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FROM A TRADE TO A PROFESSION

As members of the PCSA, we have the honor to be respected as scientific surgeons, but in the history of Western medicine, the role of the surgeon was not always so highly valued. The question I would like to address is this: . . . [Full Text of this Article]

AMBROISE PARÉ

JOHN HUNTER

EMIL THEODOR KOCHER

WILLIAM STEWART HALSTED

SURGERY TODAY

AUTHOR INFORMATION

Author Affiliation: Department of Surgery, University of California at San Francisco/Mount Zion Medical Center.

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