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The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery 82:599 (2000)
© 2000 The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, Inc.

Letters to The Editor

Letters to the Editor

Conversations with a Cab Driver

Robert E. Leach, M.D. and Leela Rangaswamy, M.D.

To The Editor:

I was disappointed with "Editorial. Conversations with a Cab Driver" (80-A: 1407-1409, Oct. 1998), by Dr. Rangaswamy. When sports medicine was first starting out, it was a favorite ploy of academic and pseudoacademic orthopaedic surgeons to make fun of sports medicine and those who specialize in it. They could not see the depth of our goals. I think it is unseemly for The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery to do that now. Dr. Rangaswamy does this by quoting a cab driver and a lay author, and by adding a few barbs of her own.

Dr. Rangaswamy condemns us for studying the knee so frequently. It is the joint most often injured with long-lasting sequelae. To me, it seems reasonable to address the biggest problem. Not incidentally, some of the papers on . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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