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William Wayne Montgomery, a retired Harvard Medical School (HMS) professor who operated on the throat and vocal chords of famous actors, athletes and dignitaries using his own ground-breaking techniques, died of bladder cancer at his home in Brookline, Mass...
During his nearly 50 year career at HMS, Montgomery wrote and updated Surgery of the Upper Respiratory System, which many consider to be the definitive work on diseases of the nose, ears and throat. He was Merriam professor of Otology and Laryngology from 1993 until he retired...
...area of the ear, he made some very lasting contributions to the management of acoustic neuromas, which are common benign tumors which affect the inner ear,” said HMS Lecompte Professor of Otology and Laryngology Joseph B. Nadol, Jr. “What’s incredible is that he did that again and again in other subspecialities. Any of us would be proud to have made those contributions in one area—it’s a tribute to his ingenuity and devotion to his patients...
...quibbling over the size of the cage or the number of “enrichments” provided to captive primates, animal experimenters at Harvard Medical School (HMS) distract attention away from their inability to justify actions that, if conducted outside of the laboratory, would constitute animal cruelty (News, “Harvard Said to Mistreat Its Monkeys,” Nov. 6). As Alice Walker said, “The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for whites, or women created...
Additionally, if HMS wishes to allay the fears of those concerned about its treatment of primates, it could offer tours of the facilities, or at the very least, videotapes and photographs of the primates undergoing experiments. If HMS treats its primates so well, it should be proud to make such documentation publicly available; instead they hide 25 miles from campus behind locked doors...