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OBITUARIES: Annette Tuffs Kurt Semm BMJ 2003; 327: 397 [Full text]

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Herbert E Reiss   (15 September 2003)

Response to the obituary 15 September 2003
Herbert E Reiss, Retired Consultant Gynaecologist Homerton Hospital, Hackney Send response to journal: Re: Response to the obituary	Kurt Semm's obituarist (BMJ 16 August 2003) names Palmer as an American surgeon. Raoul Palmer in fact was a great French gynaecologist who taught most of the world's tubal surgeons before the advent of IVF. His workplace, life and love were Paris. I had the honour to be present, in the 1960's, at a dinner in a small inn in the Black Forest which Hans Frangenheim gave for Raoul Palmer and Patrick Steptoe - the three great pioneers of laparoscopy, all Europeans. Yours etc Herbert Reiss Competing interests:   None declared