The_Invention_of_Surgery
ONE Dilemma “It has been the experience of all who treat tuberculous joints that bony ankyloses [joint fusion] is the most satis ...
displaced forward and toward the chest wall. Most full-blown dislocations require manipulation (reduction) by a clinician, prefe ...
again. “Her left or right?” I ask. “The right side—not the one she had fixed,” my assistant Kristy replies. Relieved that her op ...
existence couldn’t be more precarious (with the inference of a hellish collusion), their earthly subsistence increasingly deteri ...
the treatment of shoulder injuries.^2 Codman instigated many crucial changes in medicine, including outcomes research, hospital ...
Neer’s path from St. Louis to Springfield, Missouri, and then to Vinita; he had publications in the Journal of the American Medi ...
there are many divisions: foot and ankle, sports medicine, total joints, spine, tumor, hand, shoulder and elbow, and pediatric o ...
orthopedic surgeon from Harvard Marius Nygaard Smith-Petersen. Thoughtful data presentation of patient profiles, disease states, ...
Bridge (1931) offering access to the bedroom communities across the Hudson. Charlie Neer had arrived at Columbia at the perfect ...
Proceed bluntly through the subcutaneous tissues. Expose the head by blunt dissection and remove it.”^6 Unimaginably terse, remo ...
picture of a broken and vexed woman. “There is no way we can save the ball of your shoulder, Mrs. Harrison. But I can’t leave it ...
Similar to the hip fracture paper he had published a few years before, this chart review project required herculean effort, pori ...
and 71 patients had endured a fracture of the tuberosity (the large bump at the top of the humerus where the rotator cuff tendon ...
common. Somehow, fourteen of the nineteen patients whose humeral heads were resected were “satisfied with their result and were ...
TWO Paper, Prophet, and Printing Press I struggle to remember what day it is. I came to the medical center Saturday morning, pre ...
clean the wound edges, and over time, fashion a “mitten-hand” that he might use as a club. His family arrived later by car; it i ...
from hazing. The extra jolt of adrenaline—accompanying my boss—keeps me upright, but I bitterly regret that I didn’t bring extra ...
Five thousand years ago, in South America, Africa, and Asia, primitive peoples simultaneously—and without communication—formulat ...
processes, and 20th century surgeons discovered remedies. Each advancement (with its own sub-advancements) rested upon an earlie ...
The ruler of Pergamum (in Asia Minor, the future home of Galen) aspired to build a magnificent library in the same era, but sens ...
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