Schwartz’s Principles of Surgery

Аннотация

The past 50 years has witnessed an unimaginable growth in scientific knowledge available to students of surgery. The “science of surgery” has gained dominance over the “art of surgery.” Diverse technologies have been incorporated to expedite diagnosis and improve surgical excision or repair. The establishment of more precise criteria for categorization and analyzing data, coupled with advances in informatics, has allowed for the practice of “evidence-based medicine and surgery.” It is, as if, today’s surgeons have adopted a new language, new rules, new protocols—and anticipate new outcomes.