Codman Shoulder Society

Dear Colleagues: Happy New Year. Here is a gift of light reading. Confucius said, “Study the past if you want to define the future.” Few of us consider history until we contemplate becoming part of it. That said, here is an article I doubt most of you saw as it was published 13 years ago. It specifically considers the question of physicians vs hospitals and presents an opportunity for a physician-hospital collaboration. At the time this may have seemed novel, but it was an im

Dear CSS Colleagues: Enclosed is an important message from Christian Gerber. He has helped create an award (The Meyer Award) that can only be equated to the “Nobel” for Orthopedics. This award honors Dominik Meyer. Dominik embodied the intellectual entrepreneurism which Codman espoused more than 100 years ago by EA Codman when he said “Give me something different, for there is a chance of it being better.” Please consider if you know of any individuals or teams that might be

Dear CSS Colleagues: I am pleased to let you know of an additional resource for all interested in a more insightful approach to shoulder innovation. Prof. Fredrick (Rick) Matsen has agreed to allow us to make his blog post available on the CSS website. In his own words, the blog post is “What I try to do in these posts is to extract ‘the pearls from the oysters”. The link to his post will be placed under our heading section entitled More and will be listed as “Prof. Rick Mats