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"Every surgeon carries about him a little cemetery, in which from time to time he goes to pray, a cemetery of bitterness and regret, of which he seeks the reason for certain of his failures."

(René Leriche, French surgeon, born October 12, 1879, Roanne, Loire; died December 28, 1955, Cassis, near Marseille.)

"The definition of specialist is one who knows more and more about less and less."

(Charles H. Mayo, founder of the May clinic)
[how ironic]