In a message dated 5/28/99 8:47:16 AM Pacific Daylight Time, trauma@trauma.org writes:
<< "For the skilled surgeon putting on an ex.fix shouldn't take more than some minutes either, which could be done simultaneously while doing
the lap. & packing."
Dr Brattebo--
I'm sorry but I have heard this so often in my 20 years of dealing with these cases I have to condemn such philosophy! The classic moan of the Orthopods--"oh, it will only take me 5 minutes....etc etc etc" And 2 hours later they are still flailing around!
Eric Frykberg, MD