Dear Ann Landers,
just finished the column in which you staunchly defend the medical profession. You very politely say that no human is infallible and that, unfortunately, when a physician makes a mistake somebody becomes severely ill or dies. This is advice? I am enclosing in my letter to you a clipping from the London Sunday Times. It reports one of the most interesting errors of all time. A surgeon in Birmingham, England, amputated the wrong leg. I agree with you, Ann, that no human is infallible, and I can understand certain kinds of "mistakes," but this is ridiculous. Have you the courage and decency to print my letter?-San Jose Reader