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01-01-2005 | Letters to the Editor
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Authors:
Emmanouil A. Pikoulis, M.D., Emmanuel G. Pavlakis, M.D.
Published in:
World Journal of Surgery
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Issue 1/2005
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Excerpt
We thank Dr. Schein for his comments regarding our review on Trauma management in ancient Greece [
1], and appreciate his concerns about multiple authorship. While working together at the Department of Surgery, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, Maryland, U.S.A., the authors developed a common interest in surgical history, which was further deepened through the activities of the Ambroise Pare International Military Surgery Forum, a participating society since 1991 in the International Surgical Week organized by the International Society of Surgery/Societe Internationale de Chirurgie (ISS/SIC). This article is an expression of that camaraderie and of the authors’ hope of engaging the interest of the readers of
World Journal of Surgery in our surgical heritage. …