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Eur J Cardiothorac Surg 2004;26:237-238
© 2004 Elsevier Science NL

Editorial

The cardiothoracic surgeon and the basic scientist

Department of Surgery, Ulleval University Hospital, University of Oslo, 0407 Oslo, Norway

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e-mail: i.j.vaage@ioks.uio.no

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The Noble Prize in medicine for 2003 was awarded to two non-medical scientists, the chemist Paul Lauterbur and the physicist Peter Mansfield for their work to create and develop magnetic resonance imaging. The really basic discoveries in medicine leading to the achievement of the Noble Prize, is now more as a rule than otherwise made by non-medical basic scientist.

In cardiothoracic surgery the traditional image is that of the brave surgeon standing in the operating room all night long performing new, brave and maybe revolutionary operations and developments in direct contact with the patient. And this has been, and is still partly true. The heart lung machine was constructed by Gibbons and Gibbons, and in the first decade following the start of heart surgery, our surgical forefathers frequently performed ‘the first’ of a variety of operations. Amplifying the image of the clinically inventive surgeon is the fact that during the 50 years of open-heart surgery, the clinical developments have evolved so rapidly that procedures may even have . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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