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26 WORLD GASTROENTEROLOGY NEWS MAY 2017 Editorial | Expert Point of View | WCOG at ACG 2017 | WDHD News | WGO & WGOF News | WGO Global Guidelines | Calendar of Events (1904-1973). He wrote, under the recommendations of his friend Dr. Hector Orrego (a renown Chilean hepatologist), a poem which reminds us why we are so interested in this fascinating organ which gives us “life and love” although nobody sees it: Dr. Nahum Mendez, from Mexico (Ex-Presi-dent, ALEH 2012-2014) During the plenary sessions “You filter and apportion, you separate and divide, you multiply and lubricate, you raise and gather the threads and the grams of life, the final distillate, the intimate essences dark monarch, giver of syrups and of poisons, regulator of salts, from you I hope for justice: I love life: Do not betray me! Work on! Do not arrest my song”. Pablo Neruda “Ode to the liver”, In complete Works, II, New elemental odes, 1956, 331- 334 Morales H, Hochman W. Ode to the Liver (translation). cited 2008 May, 28; Available from: http://www. southernct. edu/hochman/Ode2liver


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