had a dream. My dream was to assemble the current and future leaders in surgery and ask them to develop an evidence-based surgical textbook that would provide the reader with the most up-to-date and relevant information on which to base decisions in modern surgical practice. In other words, the dream was to create the best, most comprehensive textbook of surgery. Fortunately, I met Laura Gillan of Springer-Verlag New York, who had a similar dream. As our editor, she has provided the foundation and structure for this dream. She has made this dream a reality. Because surgery is a highly specialized and diverse discipline with significant complexity, I also needed a commitment from outstanding sur geons to serve as coeditors. I was fortunate to have a diverse group of exceptional, young-in-spirit, en ergetic, cutting-edge, surgical investigators share in this project, and I wish to thank them for their in valuable contribution to this undertaking. The Editorial Board, including Randy Bollinger, Fred Chang, Steve Lowry, Sean Mulvihill, Harvey Pass, and Robert Thompson, met for the first time at the Ameri can College of Surgeons meeting in Chicago in October 1997 (Fig. 1). There, this book was conceived. Each of us developed the plan and content for his specific surgical discipline. The common thread is that all decisions and recommendations are based on the best available evidence and that the reader can clearly see the evidence in our "E-tables" (evidence-based tables) specifically marked for the reader's reference.
Editors and Affiliations
University of California, San Francisco, USA
Jeffrey A. Norton
Surgical Service, San Francisco VA Medical Center, San Francisco, USA
Jeffrey A. Norton
Division of General Surgery, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, USA
R. Randal Bollinger
Division of Surgical Oncology, University of Michigan, Comprehensive Cancer Center, Ann Arbor, USA
Alfred E. Chang
Department of Surgery, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, New Brunswick, USA
Stephen F. Lowry
Division of General Surgery, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, USA
Sean J. Mulvihill
Karmanos Cancer Institute, Wayne State University, Harper Hospital, Detroit, USA
Harvey I. Pass
Cell Biology and Physiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, USA
Robert W. Thompson
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Surgery
Book Subtitle: Basic Science and Clinical Evidence
Editors: Jeffrey A. Norton, R. Randal Bollinger, Alfred E. Chang, Stephen F. Lowry, Sean J. Mulvihill, Harvey I. Pass, Robert W. Thompson
