Medical schools swap pigs for plastic

Meredith Wadman

Nature, 2008, vol. 453, issue 7192, 140-141

Abstract: Doctors used to try out their surgical skills on animals before being allowed to work on patients. Now just a handful of US medical schools still have animal labs. Meredith Wadman asks if they've lost a vital tool.

Date: 2008
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