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01-10-2010 | American Society of Breast Surgeons
Presidential Address: 2010. The American Society of Breast Surgeons. There’s no “Boring” in Breast Surgery!!
Author:
Victor J. Zannis, MD
Published in:
Annals of Surgical Oncology
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Special Issue 3/2010
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Excerpt
Just over 10 years ago, after 18 years of general surgery practice, I had a change of heart—an epiphany, maybe. After 18 years of passion for performing laparoscopic cholecystectomies, inguinal herniorraphies, laparoscopic Nissen’s, mastectomies, splenectomies, adrenalectomies, and thyroid and parathyroidectomies, my passion changed for reasons that, I admit, are still not clear to me. All I knew was that the practice of breast surgery was becoming a bigger and bigger part of my professional life, both in my heart and in my head. …