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Knee Surgery, Sports Traumatology, Arthroscopy

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01-04-2019 | EDITORIAL

Am I the right surgeon, in the right hospital, with the right equipment and staff to do this operation?

Authors: Jonathan R. A. Phillips, Andrew D. Toms, Roland Becker, Michael T. Hirschmann

Published in: Knee Surgery, Sports Traumatology, Arthroscopy | Issue 4/2019

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It was a regular morning trauma meeting and cases were being discussed. Unusually, it was a light day for trauma and the afternoon trauma list lay empty of cases. A displaced distal humerus fracture (Holstein–Lewis variant) was presented to the (mainly lower limb) trauma surgeons at the meeting that day. The fracture was closed and there were no neurovascular concerns; it was, in essence, a non-urgent trauma case. …

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Title: Am I the right surgeon, in the right hospital, with the right equipment and staff to do this operation?
Authors: Jonathan R. A. Phillips
Andrew D. Toms
Roland Becker
Michael T. Hirschmann
Publication date: 01-04-2019
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published in: Knee Surgery, Sports Traumatology, Arthroscopy / Issue 4/2019
Print ISSN: 0942-2056
Electronic ISSN: 1433-7347
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00167-019-05393-7

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