Abstract
It is an every-day experience in medical literature to read a surgeon's report of a series of "successful" operations. The surgeon expresses therein usually a feeling of satisfaction with the results of his work. Are the patients and family physicians equally content? What gratification or satisfaction is it to a woman to appreciate that she has escaped with her life, after a serious operation, only to discover that she continues to be an invalid or possibly a cripple? How many of these patients who have been "successfully" operated on pass on to the family physician, to the neurologist, or perhaps to the next surgeon for further attention? And how many of such patients would not rather have sent their blessings from the next world to their surgeon had he failed in noting a "successful" result and spared them the tortures of postoperative invalidism? The older one grows in the practice
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