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1Beeson Divinity School, Samford University, Birmingham, AL, USA.
Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research
|September 15, 2000
Abstract:
Little consideration has been given to the ethics of innovation in surgery despite the major role of innovation in orthopaedic practice. We propose that a series of cases of increasing ethical complexity may serve as a classification system and assist orthopaedists in thinking about the ethical dimensions of other cases.
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