“Surgery is simple‐it requires only anatomy and hemostasis”

Abstract

With this our penultimate issue of 2015, Clinical Anatomy offers a wide mixture of anatomical topics for our readers. These include papers on a new concept, the subparaneurial compartment and how this might impact classification of peripheral nerve lesions, an ultrastructure examination of the three anterior cruciate bundles, fine anatomy related to robot-assisted laparoscopic radical prostatectomy, the “snapping” medial antebrachial cutaneous nerve, and the clinical anatomy of accessory mental nerves and their foramina. Additionally, an often overlooked figure from our history is noted in a letter to the editor regarding Friedrich August von Ammon. The importance of anatomy to practitioners of medicine is obvious. For surgeons, it is the essence of who they are and what they do. As a spine surgeon colleague of mine (J. Patrick Johnson, Director of the Institute for Spinal Disorders at Cedars Sinai Medical Center has said, “Surgery is simple-it requires only anatomy and hemostasis.” As clinical anatomists, this notion permeates into what we do as well. Parenthetically, Phitayakorn and Lachman offer us an interesting Viewpoint article herein regarding the reunion between anatomists and surgeons. Lastly, I have recently left my birthplace and home of four plus decades to take on an exciting position as Chief Science Officer for the Seattle Science Foundation (Fig. 1) in Washington. This move will allow me to even better serve our Journal and increase my laboratory's ability to push research and academics in clinical anatomy in a facility with an amazing infrastructure and dedication to clinically applicable anatomical research. Snapshot from entrance to the Seattle Science Foundation. An institute dedicated to advancing the quality of patient care through education, research, innovation and collaboration. www.seattlesciencefoundation.org.