Influence of artificial ventilation on the pulmonary capillary wedge pressure.

COMMUNICATIONS TO THE EDITOR 693 operation. Preston’s insinuation that cardiologists and surgeons are recommending aortocoronary bypass surgery for personal economic reasons is one of the most insulting things that I have ever read in a medical journal. Did it ever occur to him that the results he reads about in journals and sees in government-funded hospitals might not be the same as the results obtained by competent cardiologists and experienced skilled surgeons in private practice? There is no comparison between the results that we obtain in our private practice and those I read about in medical journals. Our results are far superior. We recommend aortocoronary bypass surgery because it is best for our patients.