The changing faces and phases of orthopaedic surgery in South Africa

Abstract

Orthopaedic Surgery in South Africa has advanced in leaps and bounds, with an impressive trajectory, acceleration and momentum over the years. To do justice to this fact, it needs more than an individual personal life journey to quantify the strides and quantum gains. This is, however, by no means a testimony that we have caught up with the desired correction of the historical distortions that characterise our society in general.