A DEBATE: ASYMPTOMATIC GALLSTONES SHOULD NOT BE REMOVED

Abstract

This is the edited transcript of a continuing education meeting held under the auspices of the new south wales state committee, royal australasian college of surgeons, at the sheraton‐wentworth hotel, sydney, on 21 march 1986. The meeting took the form of a debate, in which a group of speakers were asked to assemble the appropriate facts and arguments for and against the proposition that ‘asymptomatic gallstones should not be removed’. As the contributors in some cases found themselves supporting a point of view with which they did not necessarily agree, individual participants are not identified in the transcript.