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| Brueghel: Landscape with the fall of Icarus (victim of hubris, bottom right) Musee Royaux des Beaux Arts, Brussels, 1560ish ** |
I once had a consultant colleague who regularly boasted that his hip replacements didn't dislocate. He was a fan of the cementless 32mm Ring implant with a polyethylene cup, done through an anterolateral approach. They all failed after abut 5 years with wrecked abductors, but he was right: they didn't dislocate (much).
This was a perfect example of both the Sin of Denial in Orthopaedics (SODIO) and also hubris. Which is where Leo Gordon's next matrix lesson comes in. Hubris is a word that should be used a lot by surgeons, and not just when discussing their colleagues' errors and complications.
Note the painful description of the attending/consultant: the overeducated overbearing surgical attending who had no insight into his own failures
Ouch.
It also contains one of a number of Leo's references to the mysterious pantheon of the surgical gods. Do not upset them. Heed their warnings. And note also olbos and koros. We've all been there.
**If you're interested in the painting and some poetry (yes, this is orthopaedics), then read this
***Everyone knows nemesis don't they
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