Experimental Biology

Stanford Researchers Score Hit in 'Scar Wars'

Published in Law and Health Weekly, June 16th, 2007

When Geoffrey Gurtner worked as a surgery resident at Boston Shriner's Hospital, he regularly treated children with disfiguring burns over their faces and bodies. These young patients would undergo 60 to 70 operations and, in the end, still look horrendous.

"As surgeons, we can save their lives," said Gurtner, MD, now associate professor of surgery at the Stanford University School of Medicine. "But we can't save the quality of their lives. These kids live diminished lives for an injury that is literally only skin deep."

The memory of these patients has haunted him over the years, sending him from the operating room into the research laboratory...

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Source: Law and Health Weekly (2007-06-16)

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