From: Lee Daniel Crocker (lee@piclab.com)
Date: Mon Apr 21 2003 - 17:06:02 MDT
> (Mike Lorrey <mlorrey@yahoo.com>):
>
> "You mean they actually ALLOW people to engage in elective abdominal
> surgery with only catgut holding them together!?!?!?!?!"
> If anyone is aware of any new technologies in this area, I'd love to
> hear about them.
Both staples and glue are becoming more common in surgery these
days, but there's a lot to be said for old-fashioned sutures. If
an old tech works well, there's little reason to replace it just
because something else comes along unless that something else is
better in /every/ possible case.
-- Lee Daniel Crocker <lee@piclab.com> <http://www.piclab.com/lee/> "All inventions or works of authorship original to me, herein and past, are placed irrevocably in the public domain, and may be used or modified for any purpose, without permission, attribution, or notification."--LDC
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