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ABSTRACT To the Editor: —I have read with much interest, but many doubts, the criticism by Dr. Alfred C. Croftan in The Journal, January 11, on the recent article by Dr. Richard C. Cabot, Diagnostic Pitfalls. I am a great admirer of Dr. Cabot's unequivocal honesty and sterling integrity.One must confess that professional honesty can be graded, the same as commercial products or even California fruit, and this superfine Cabot grade, which would proclaim the truth from the housetops because it is truth, no matter what the personal cost or sacrifice might be, is certainly a rara avis. Only twice have I met it before: once in a great medical teacher who no longer resides in this country, and again in a prominent surgeon with whom this teacher was long associated.Dr. Croftan's statement that in Vienna he has seen 152 consecutive cases correctly diagnosed in every clinical detail will be hardly
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