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Eisenhower: “The surgeon owes all the more a responsibility to the society of which he is an integral part; a responsibility to help…”

On the recordOctober 13, 1957
The surgeon owes all the more a responsibility to the society of which he is an integral part; a responsibility to help make our democratic processes work.
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Eisenhower
Republican · Kansas

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Message to the Atlantic City Clinical Congress of the American College of Surgeons.

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