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In my letter to the editor in the May 2001 issue of the ARCHIVES,¹ the crux of my thesis was set forth in a single sentence that, when written by me and sent off to the ARCHIVES, read as follows: "But some colleagues disposed favorably to dermatologic surgery, I among them, are concerned about a distressing trend in that field to cosmetology and to the failure of leaders like Drs Brody and Coleman to decry it." A copy editor for the ARCHIVES took the liberty of changing the sentence to read thus: "But some colleagues disposed favorably to dermatologic surgery, I among them, are concerned about a distressing trend in that field to the name cosmetology and to the failure of leaders like Drs Brody and Coleman to decry it."

The issue that I wrote about is not the name, but rather the transformation of a magnificent, multifaceted discipline, namely, . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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