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Jackson

, re training of assistants

Give them more credit than they deserve to render them “full of enthusiasm” and with enough ego “to think he has done it all himself” (155). “. . . nobody with me is ever allowed to develop an inferiority complex” (160). All this in the interest of training surgeons “ready to spread widely the gospel of safe bronchoscopy” (156). (Cf. da Costa on Keen as a teacher [da Costa, 324-25])