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In My Opinion

Only a bubble in the molten mass? Lung cancer management in the indigent

By Raymond U. Osarogiagbon, MD, FACP and Mathew Ninan, MD

Lung cancer is the most common lethal malignancy in the US, estimated to have killed more than 160,000 American citizens in 2007 alone. Although the patients most at risk can be relatively easily identified--smokers, over the age of 40--there is as yet no proven effective screening method.

- In My Opinion Articles -

The Good Old Times: Medicine and Cardiothoracic Surgery are what they used to be and possibly even better by John R. Benfield, MD
06-February-2008

Guidelines for Live Surgery by Shinichi Takamoto, MD
19-October-2007

The Advent of VATS by Ralph J. Lewis, MD
19-June-2007

How can Morbidity and Mortality Conference Contribute to QA? by Vincent A. Gaudiani, MD
26-April-2007

The Perils of Pioneering by Ralph J. Lewis, MD
09-August-2006

Exceptional Physicians and Physician Exceptionalism by Vincent A. Gaudiani, MD
20-June-2006

Chasing the Wrong Villain by Donald E. Ross, MD
22-May-2006

Cardiothoracic Surgeons Have an Important Role in the Emerging Specialty of Cardiothoracic Surgical Critical Care by Nevin M. Katz, MD
03-February-2006

Rethinking Innovation by Vincent A. Gaudiani, MD
14-September-2005

Surgery as Spectacle by Duke E. Cameron, MD
15-July-2005

The Cardiac Surgeon's Plight by Atiq Rehman
06-June-2005

Energy Loss for Evaluating Valve Performance - A Concept Whose Time is Past Due by Cary W. Akins, MD
26-April-2005

Comprehensive Quality Assurance for Cardiac Surgery by Vincent A. Gaudiani, MD
11-November-2004

Federal Funding of Stem Cell Research, and the War Against Disease by Lawrence I. Bonchek, MD
09-October-2004

Oversupply of Cardiothoracic Surgeons: Its Consequences and Correction by Charles Stewart Roberts, MD
03-August-2004

Adequate Cardiac Care? Conundrum for Nonaffluent Countries by Probal K. Ghosh, MCh and Ratna A. Magotra, MCh
27-May-2004

We Are Good, But Aren't We Too Old and Too Expensive? by Francis Robicsek, MD PhD
30-March-2004

All Politics are Local by Constantine Mavroudis, MD
18-February-2004

A Mind of Winter by Vincent A. Gaudiani, MD
03-February-2004

Paradox of the Deteriorating Risk/Benefit Ratio of Increasing Surgical Volume…for the Surgeon by Cary W. Akins, MD
03-January-2004

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