Journal of investigative surgery : the official journal of the Academy of Surgical Research
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Embracing greatness, for surgeons as well as for other professionals, brings about a positive state of mind that permits us and others to better appreciate the performance of our working activities and our lives. Celebrating greatness is unique and should not be overlooked at any time in our professional development. ⋯ Believing in their possibilities of success, promoting their confidence, and celebrating greatness should be important qualities to seek in the life and career of the modern surgical specialist. The surgeon as an individual, as a professional, and as a human being would enormously progress in life and in working endeavors when embracing greatness thoughout personal and professional careers.
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The magic world of the sensational Spanish novel The Shadow of the Wind serves as an excellent background to indicate the importance of forgotten surgical books by surgeons-in-the making or surgeons-in-practice. Why would this book be helpful to surgeons, when it mainly refers to a 10-year-old Daniel, who had been taken by his father to the Cemetery of Forgotten Books? In this cemetery, this unique place, certain books are subjected to oblivion and condemned to be forgotten. ⋯ We have imagined the forgotten books as the surgical books disregarded or lost by a great number of surgical specialists, the forgotten books of surgical history that we do not emphasize in our surgical residency programs. These volumes comprise our own Cemetery of Forgotten Surgical Books.