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Contemporary surgeons are able to offer individual patients and society therapeutic interventions that help to prolong life and make it more meaningful. These interventions are the result of a better understanding of human disease that has converted possibilities that were un-thought of merely one generation ago into realities. Unless you are completely satisfied with all the forms of therapy currently available to surgeons and other clinicians you must favor surgical and other clinical research in its broadest terms. No further justification for research on surgical problems is required.
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Cruess, R.L. (1986). Philosophy of Surgical Research. In: Troidl, H., Spitzer, W.O., McPeek, B., Mulder, D.S., McKneally, M.F. (eds) Principles and Practice of Research. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-96942-3_3
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