Abstract
Designing a thesis in Poland is part tradition, part education, part science and part politics. A clock starts the moment the scalpel touches flesh. Time is one procedural factor over which a surgeon has no control. A face cannot be completely restored to form and function piecemeal.
Keywords
Martial law comes to Poland Days with patients Nights with rabbits Creating a thesis Finding a mentor Laboratory in a nunnery Structure of a vessel “You have a lot of time” Why not a face transplantCopyright information
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