Self-inflicted risks of orthopaedic surgery.

The advancements in medicine, including orthopaedic treatment, since 1960 have so greatly improved quality of life that human nature has changed in its social goals. These technological innovations, especially the products created, have resulted in a self-inflicted increase in risk of practice. This risk will not be leveled until society recognizes that it expects that the physician not only be a healer, but able to fulfill the social goals of the patient.