“DEAD” SURGERY
NEW METHODS URGED “LEARN FROM HUMANS” LONDON, October 3. “There is no doubt that a change in the training of surgeons is imminent, but it is largely overdue,” said Sir Berkeley Moynihan (Professori of Chemical Surgery at Leeds University) speaking at King’s College Hospital. He deprecated the fact that physiologists were neglecting opportunities for direct research, by trusting too implicitly in the demonstration of physiological truths by the use of animals and that surgeons were teaching students only on the dead body when hospital wards enabled the teacher to indelibly implant truths derived from living human beings. Surgeons, teaching bj r the former means, developed in the students an intellectual complacency, due to the belief that they had mastered the subject. If surgery were to become the instrument of research which he believed it would, and not merely a wonderful craft, then surgeons must have their minds shaped and strengthened by conflict on unsettled problems and not sterilised by monotonous exercises within the narrow province of static knowledge.—Sun.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 173, 12 October 1927, Page 11
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170“DEAD” SURGERY Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 173, 12 October 1927, Page 11
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