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Article: Dr. C. Everett Koop announces establishment of National Head and Spinal Cord Injury Prevention Program co-sponsored by American Association of Neurological Surgeons and Congress of Neurological Surgeons.
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- September 15, 1986
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/ADVANCE/NEW ORLEANS, Sept. 15 /PRNewswire/ -- The Honorable C. Everett Koop, M.D., Surgeon General of the United States, announced today the establishment of the National Head and Spinal Cord Injury Prevention Program co-sponsored by the American Association of Neurological Surgeons and the Congress of Neurological Surgeons.
As the doctors who must tell an injured patient and his family that he will not walk again, or that a head injury has resulted in significant permanent brain damage, neurological surgeons are frustrated by how little they can do to repair the damage that has occurred. They have therefore established this national prevention program to ...