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Ann Thorac Surg 2001;71:757
© 2001 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

Correspondence

The surgeon and the follow-up clinic

F. Hammond Cole, Jr, MDa, James W. Pate, MDa, Darryl Weiman, MDa

a Department of Thoracic Surgery, University of Tennessee Center for the Health Sciences, 1325 Eastmoreland Ste 310, Memphis, TN 38104, USA

e-mail: fhcole@utmem.ed

To the Editor

With regard to the article by Gilbert and colleagues [1] and the accompanying editorial by Naunheim [2], we would like to make the case for including the follow-up clinic in the surgeon’s care of the bronchogenic carcinoma patient. In a detailed study from M.D. Anderson, Walsh and colleagues [3] could show no survival benefit, so perhaps the question of "whether" to follow is as pertinent as "who" should provide this service. We would submit that follow-up visits potentially benefit both the patient and the surgeon.

Regarding the benefits to the . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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The surgeon and the follow-up clinic: reply
Sébastien Gilbert, Kenneth R. Reid, and Dimtri Petsikas
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