One person's innovation is another's experiment

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Surgical innovation is necessary, but there is pressure to impose standards on to the innovator normally associated with formal research. Developments in surgery often involve minor refinements and adaptations of well recognised techniques. For such developments, a surgeon can rely on his good standing, peers, and peripheral evidence for support if complications arise. > There is a conflict of interest between the innovator and the doctor Occasionally, however, surgeons may be faced with an emergency situation for which there is no complete conventional solution. The ingrained teaching would be to do nothing controversial. This doctrine, however, may result in the prospect of further surgery, and possible complications. The operating surgeon may have a bright idea offering a better solution, albeit neither tried nor tested. Alternatively, a specialist surgeon may be struggling with a small population of elective patients with a particular unsolved surgical dilemma. The surgeon has …

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