The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
Volume 123, Issue 3 , Pages 403-405 , March 2002

Profits and professionalism

Received 23 October 2001 ,Accepted 31 October 2001.

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 Read at the Twenty-seventh Annual Meeting of The Western Thoracic Surgical Association, San Diego, Calif, June 20-23, 2001.

☆☆ Address for reprints: Robert M. Sade, MD, Department of Surgery, 96 Jonathan Lucas St, Suite 409, Box 250612, Charleston, SC 29425 (E-mail: sader@musc.edu ).

PII: S0022-5223(02)30772-4

doi: 10.1067/mtc.2002.122112

The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
Volume 123, Issue 3 , Pages 403-405 , March 2002