The_Invention_of_Surgery

questionnaire “the death of a surgeon with whom I had expected to practice medicine caused me to leave the medical school and go ...

Following the first public demonstration of surgical anesthesia in the Ether Dome at Massachusetts General Hospital in 1846, Koc ...

sufferer cannot raise his head to look forward. The worst cases result in a vulture’s posture; I’ve seen patients who were force ...

had enlisted as an army medic in World War II, triggering a lifelong interest in medicine. After the war, he received all his me ...

knows the name Tommy John: the name attached to the triumphal solution to a failed elbow. Dodger fans had watched another phenom ...

who has a great sense of direction, driving in the dark in an unfamiliar part of town, and yet, still knows the way home. A phen ...

reports contain only bland information about nameless patients. But in the JBJS article, we find Case I, a twenty-nine-year-old ...

When Tommy awakened from surgery, he groggily attempted to feel his right arm. Having already endured left elbow surgery two yea ...

NINETEEN Calculating the Impact What is the impact of the implant revolution? Comprehending the reach of medical devices in our ...

federal spending on health care could increase 1,700 percent in half a century? Outcomes in the treatment of cancer, heart disea ...

incorporating the tissues to nearby structures, and 3) functionally adapting the tissues to adopt the role of previous tissues. ...

implants. In the case of augmentation breast surgery following mastectomy, the line is blurred between augmentation and restorat ...

so extrapolation of the data must be performed to come up with national estimates. The first FDA-approved total hip replacement ...

the 522,800 hip replacements is 16 percent more than the 451,600 predicted by 2020 in the JBJS. Even savvy statisticians miss th ...

treatment of knee arthritis alone in 2030 would be an astounding $61 billion dollars. Shoulder replacement arthroplasty has ball ...

metal screws, plates, and rods. It is reasonable to conclude that more than ten thousand patients a year in America require majo ...

neighborhood of $4 billion of Medicare spending on spine fusion operations, saying nothing of the astronomical costs of nonopera ...

Sports medicine as a specialty started as knee reconstruction on football players. Today, sports medicine operations typically e ...

allograft (transplantation) operations.^29 Surprisingly, with a total of 418,600 operations involving implantable devices, menis ...

annual growth in operations, it is reasonable to estimate that 12,500 such cartilage implantations occurred in 2014. Today there ...