1 Department of Orthopedics and Traumatology, Van Military Hospital, Van Askeri Hastanesi Altıntepe, Van, Turkey. 2 Department of Emergency Medicine, Van Military Hospital, Van Askeri Hastanesi Altıntepe, Van, Turkey. Department of Emergency Medicine, Etimesgut Military Hospital, Etimesgut Asker Hastanesi Etimesgut, Ankara, Turkey. Department of Emergency Medicine, Sisli Hamidiye Etfal Research...

1 – Coordinator of the Shoulder and Elbow Surgery Group, Bahia Institute of Orthopedics and Traumatology (INSBOT – Instituto Baiano de Ortopedia e Traumatologia); Orthopedic surgeon at the Hospital Português da Bahia 2 – Head of the Shoulder and Elbow Surgery Group, ORTOPED Fracture Clinic; Orthopedic surgeon at the Hospital Português da Bahia 3 – Medical Assistant, Shoulder and Elbow Surgery G...

All orthopedic surgeons face moral dilemmas on a regular basis; however, little has been written about the moral dilemmas that are encountered when providing orthopedic care to pediatric patients and their families. This article aims to provide surgeons with a better understanding of how bioethics and professionalism apply to the care of their pediatric patients. First, several foundational con...

BACKGROUND Medical photography is used clinically for patient evaluation, treatment decisions, and scientific documentation. Although standards for medical photography exist in many branches of medicine, we have not encountered such criteria in publications in the area of orthopedics. PURPOSE This study aims to (1) assess the quality of medical images used in an orthopedic publication and (2)...

The high Value of PrinT Beginning with this January/February print issue, ORTHOPEDICS will be mailed to subscribers 6 times per year. In every print issue, Associate Editors Vik Patel and Terry Thompson and I have carefully chosen to include what we consider to be superior content via a new rating system that is now part of the Journal’s peer review process. These wellwritten and academically s...