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Lawrence Pottenger, MD, PhD
University of Chicago Chicago, Ill

JAMA. 1996;276(23):1876.

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—I also believe that the patient should be fully in formed of the benefits and potential complications of surgery. However, physicians should not transmit a sense of urgency to the patient with regard to either scheduling the surgery or having the surgery. My impression from the conversation in the Clinical Crossroads article¹ was that the surgeons were conveying asense of urgency, which should never be conveyed in potentially life-threatening elective surgery. . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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