ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
I wish to acknowledge the generous assistance I have received from individuals who have reviewed parts or all of this work. My wife, Shirley, helped me clarify and adjust many sections of the manuscript, so as to much better convey my intended thoughts and ideas. I am indebted to my Chairman, Leonard B. Kahn, under whom I completed my residency and who has set an example for many cohorts of trainees as a gentleman and esteemed surgical pathologist. I obtained valuable insights from the following: Martin Edelstein, M.D., Noel Epstein, Robert Geissler, Anthony Pitch, Steve Beckman, Rachel Ritvo, M.D., Michael Starr, and William Steinberg, M.D. I am indebted to Yigal Nochomovitz, PhD., for helping me to refine a crude formula (expressing the ingredients of a final opinion) in a way that obscures my demoralising weakness in mathematics. I am grateful, too, for a constructive critique from Terence Lynam, Vice-President for Public Relations of the North Shore-LIJ Health System. The photograph on the home page was taken by Hillel Dlugacz, North Shore-LIJ Studios.