Little Miles
Centre for Values, Ethics and the Law in Medicine, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia.
ANZ J Surg. 2006 Dec;76(12):1115-20. doi: 10.1111/j.1445-2197.2006.03952.x.
Sir Gordon Gordon-Taylor was a surgical giant and a giant among surgeons. There's a distinction between the two. Surgical giants are technical geniuses who pave the way for others and set the standards against which others can measure their performance. Giants among surgeons contribute other things to the science and practice of surgery and sometimes to fields outside surgery. By these measures, Abraham Colles was not a surgical giant. He thought, wrote and taught about his interests. He enhanced the reputation of Irish surgery. In retrospect, his science and his ethics seem flawed by modern standards, but by the measures of his own time he was a model investigator and a man of outstanding moral probity. He is remembered for the eponymous Colles's fracture and for Colles's fascia and ligament. He held the Chair of Anatomy and Surgery in Dublin for 32 years and drew the admiration and affection of his contemporaries, colleagues and students. He was a giant among surgeons, and his name deserves commemoration.
戈登·戈登 - 泰勒爵士是外科领域的一位巨匠，更是外科医生群体中的杰出人物。这两者之间存在区别。外科巨匠是为他人开辟道路并设定衡量他人表现标准的技术天才。外科医生群体中的杰出人物则为外科学科及实践，有时也为外科以外的领域贡献其他方面的力量。按照这些标准，亚伯拉罕·柯莱斯并非外科巨匠。他思考、著述并讲授自己感兴趣的内容。他提升了爱尔兰外科的声誉。回顾往昔，以现代标准衡量，他的科学见解和道德观念似乎存在瑕疵，但以他所处时代的标准来看，他是一位模范研究者，有着极高的道德操守。他因以其名字命名的柯莱斯骨折以及柯莱斯筋膜和韧带而被人们铭记。他在都柏林担任解剖学与外科学教授长达32年，赢得了同时代人、同事及学生的钦佩与爱戴。他是外科医生群体中的杰出人物，他的名字值得被纪念。
