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The steadyness of progress: the case of surgery

Mladen Štulhofer

Sažetak

The war in Croatia has caused rapid changes in medical practice. This holds true especially in the case of surgery which was confronted with the most difficult and highly responsible tasks. War surgery, which is indeed the very core of the wartime medicine, simply step into the place of »elective« surgery - pushing it to the bacground. Therefore, certain lag in the development of the elective surgery seems to be invitable. Having in mind that development constitutes a fixed value of surgical enterprise, it would be a considerable mistake to overlook surgical inventions which occurred while we were absorbed in treating the victims of war. In spite of the fact that surgical development often resists precise description - due to the data cumulation requirement, to take just one example - it is of crucial importance that we catch up with the current improvements in elective surgery. Historically, the development in surgery is marked by more and less intensive phases; the less intensive one, however, should never be mistaken for the final stage of surgical progress. Basic human liberties provided, surgical enterprise will not stop improving...

Ključne riječi

Hrčak ID:

195501

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/195501

Datum izdavanja:

1.12.1992.

Podaci na drugim jezicima: hrvatski

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