The shoulder : rupture of the supraspinatus tendon and other lesions in or about the subacromial bursa / E.A. Codman.

Ernest Amory Codman

Date:: 1934

Credit: The shoulder : rupture of the supraspinatus tendon and other lesions in or about the subacromial bursa / E.A. Codman. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$10 Epilogue S ].re,'c’ K M'ing, and so will your fellow ■ V;' T stl’P The shoulder part of'vonr |,„’k ' 1Igllt; wh-V not leave out this End Result Stuff?” for vIrSWCr 'S th'lt t0 Ic;lve if out woM be to me like working 1 a le. r'C|Mnnf,U ,WT U>r ‘ ^journey of adventure® l ,lt tl,C n,°ment having the builder insist on having ,„v scien- ■fle apparatus removed for fear it would be too heavy, and prevent the K iC TT' 1 bil1- Th° P°rti™ af the book on • ><»il(lu is the balloon, but the really important part of the expo IS u basket below, containing the ,reface a!,d epilog!,e I designed the balloon to advertise the End Result Idea, and I was plan- ng o pay for the trip as a luxury, provided the whole affair was »udt on my specifications. It was my balloon, although five hundred n einbers of the American College of Surgeons had promised o he backers to the extent of each agreeing to purchase a report of the fo;PI °/J ™ dolkrS- }*ld ’lot Submit the manuscript to a publisher, value” d Jf 1 ° ChanCG °f °nC accePtinS ^ with the “sales . , f Stl'°Jcd b-y two cartoons, a preface and an epilogue, which i< uuled our most sacred medical institutions. This would have been J POU ° , V*CW’ °;'°n thou«h the central portion of the book might uhv\°\Ci V [11CndUring m°n°^raPh- He would point to that U£,h truth displayed in the basket, that few hospitals have any indi¬ viduals, committees or departments, whose duty it is to persistently investigate the results of medical and surgical treatment, in ^ to prevent waste products in the forms of unnecessary delay, suffer- mg .ind failures ,n achieving relief or cure in each individual case here has been a very earnest attempt to make the central portion of Jins book so good that it would be worth at least five dollars to each of the subscribers, and afterward go about the world for a decade °; !n<,7 I18 a Standard work on thc shoulder. I feel sure that it will he at least ten years before any other surgeon would, if he could, take he time and trouble to write a better one. The question is whether the buoyancy of the “sales value” of the shoulder part can carrv. uliat seems to me, its far more important, though unpopular and heavy basket, which flaunts a banner at which presidents of endowed universities cannot afford to look, and even those of state universities would need their smoked political glasses, for the first shock. Even if the balloon floats across the sky, there will he hut a small number of surgeons who will notice SHOULDER in large letters and cure to study it carefully. However, it is not wholly through surgeons hut I hope to plant my ideus in suitable soil where they may flourish I must somehow reach those who think about hospitals in terms of dollars; those who arrange investments and engage auditors, exeeu-$