Wednesday, February 9, 2011

"It is a lie that sympatholysis may specifically cure patients

with unqulified "reflex sympathetic dystrophy". This was already stated by the father of sympathectomy, Rene Leriche, more than half a century ago.
...it is not an error, but a lie. While conceptual errors are not only forgivable, but natural to inexact medical science, lies, particularly when entrepreneurially inspired are condemnable and call for a peer intervention.

J. Neurology (1999) 246: 875-879