“The good doctor can no longer be content without this knowledge – that his object is not only to save a life, but also to make the life he saves worth living” (Vasicka et al, 1958). This concept was being put forward 30 years ago by an American doctor, Vasicka, and his colleagues working in a gynaecological tumour clinic.
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