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Monday, August 10, 2009
passive operative madness
Hospitals focused their most concentrated attention on the drama in the operating room. Even the human body cooperated, demonstrating that a man or woman could get along minus a kidney or a gall bladder, with half a stomach, one lung, or part of the sex organs. In Europe one woman was reported to have had twenty-three major abdominal operations. Furor operativus passivus—passive operative madness—was the ironic name the reporting physician gave to the craze for surgery. When I was a student, a story went the rounds of the hospitals about a man, suffering from epilepsy, who had this plea tattooed on his belly: "Don't take out my appendix. Was taken out twice."
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