Coisas da vida de um ortopedista maduro

Abstract

We orthopedists who have passed the likely midpoint of our lives have dedicated a considerable amount of time to our specialty. As professionals, as students, as teachers, as writers, as readers, as members of professional organizations, as panelists at congresses, as exhibitors at congresses, as trainees, as travelers to training programs: some more so and others less so, but certainly we have dedicated more than half of our lives to matters relating to orthopedics.All these activities give rise to happiness, sadness, pleasure, displeasure, friends, enemies and many other things that are the same or opposites. I am among those who have been highly dedicated to our specialty, and so I have an enormous baggage acquired over these years of orthopedics.Friends always leave their mark: some orthopedist friends with whom I have had a sporadic, essentially professional relationship; and others who have gone beyond this barrier and have been transformed into lifelong friends. Fortunately, I have made many more orthopedist friends than enemies, and I have made great friends for life, coming from my professional, academic or society activities.