Abstract:AN EDITORIAL (20) in 1940 referred to "radically wrong, meddlesome surgery," which was a "violation of the Hippocratic oath." An opposing view was expressed by Fiamberti (26) : "In the present state of affairs, if some are critical about lack of caution in therapy, it is on the other hand deplorable and inexcusable to remain apathetic, with folded hands, content with learned lucubrations upon symptomatologic minutiae or upon psychopathic curiosities, or, even worse, not even doing that." The first opinion is w… Show more
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