Many things in life are absolute Yes or No. For example “Is my phone battery fully charged?” Is my car tank empty? Is this the right key to my house? Is this glass empty? Unfortunately, surgical procedures seldom are.
Though this score has been written for orthopaedic surgeons, it is more or less applicable for all surgeries and answers a question commonly asked by patients either immediately after surgery of in post operative period. “Doctor! Was the surgery Successful?” We all know the routine answer even in cases that have gone wrong, but in our innermost levels of thoughts and psyche, we know exactly HOW THE SURGERY WENT! Since I resumed Orthopaedic Practice some two and a half years ago, I decided to limit my patients, reduce the number of surgeries, but give the best of what I could to the patients I saw. This made me change my entire practice and I added things like 100% video…
