Surgical Clinics of North America
Descripción Surgical Clinics of North America There are many reasons to present an issue of the Surgical Clinics of North America on surgery of the biliary tract, and many of them are contradictory at some level. Nearly all general surgeons perform biliary tract surgery to some degree, and progressively fewer general surgeons seem comfortable with all aspects of biliary surgery. The historic progression of this ‘‘comfort dissociation’’ is fairly easy to trace but, in my opinion, difficult to completely understand. And, sadly, it may reflect a disturbing trend in our industry. There are three main influences that have drastically altered
