Luis H. Toledo-Pereyra
Michigan State University
Kalamazoo Center for Medical Studies

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Great advances in a medical or surgical discipline originate from courageous and unabashed, committed professionals who are fearless in exploring new avenues of management or treatment. Great advances in the chosen field are dependent on those who think and practice innovation and discovery. Great advances in selected or wide areas of medicine or surgery are the response of long-term, dedicated professionals who believe in principles of innovation and discovery.

To innovate or to discover can become a more frequently sought out process if surgeons or other specialists advance their knowledge to include novel concepts throughout their professional exercise. Awareness of innovation or discovery represents the most important step toward reaching the heights of these conceptual ways of viewing the practice of medicine or surgery.

To think of innovation or discovery is to begin the path of accepting challenges and new developments when practicing medicine or surgery. The advice for young and mature surgeons alike would be to innovate whenever you can, to discover wherever possible. Advance your knowledge and maintain your innovative spirit. Keeping your activities in tune with innovative or discovery ideas creates the right spirit for advancing medicine or surgery.

Innovation and discovery are unique and worth pursuing. Creating the environment for them to flourish is the responsibility of the clinical or basic science specialist. Innovation and discovery are in our minds. Do not let time pass by and start innovating and discovering today. There is no time to waste. Enjoy your path as the innovator and/or discoverer of the future!

Table of Contents

SECTION I. INNOVATION AND DISCOVERY

1. Innovation
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2. Elements of Discovery
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3. Cushing as an Innovator
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4. Discovery According to Blalock
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5. Innovation According to C. Walton Lillehei
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6. Discovery According to Huggins
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7. Lessons from Thomas Alva Edison—The Greatest American Inventor—To Surgical Investigators
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SECTION II. ART, LITERATURE AND CINEMATOGRAPHY

8. The Four Doctors
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9. Diego Rivera and His Extraordinary Art of Medicine and Surgery
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10. In the Cemetery of Forgotten Books
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11. Medicine, Gabriel García Márquez and Love in the Time of Cholera
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12. From Hell
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13. Something the Lord Made
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SECTION III. BIOGRAPHY, HISTORY AND CRITICISM

14. William and Charles Mayo: Their Influence on American Medicine
Roberto Anaya‑Prado and Marisol Godinez Rubi

15. The History of Surgery According to Owen Wangensteen
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16. Richard Selzer: Premier American Surgeon‑Writer
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17. Lessons from the History of Medicine
John Waller

SECTION IV. PHILOSOPHY OF SURGERY

18. The Social Transformation of American Surgery
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SECTION V. VIRTUES OF MAN

19. Humility
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20. Embracing Greatness
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21. Good Men Live on and Never Fade Away
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