IT is natural for an audience to assume that one who has survived beyond the Biblical age of three score years and ten might touch upon a few changes in professional activities during a lifetime that by chance includes that period referred to as the "Golden Age of Medicine." In so doing I shall risk being relegated to the lowly status of "the Old Dr. Chips" in Dunphy's1 classification. There is no intent on my part to be either soothsayer or reformer. My generation of surgeons is indeed grateful to have served during a time when the doors hiding the . . .