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By reading this piece, you are identifying yourself as a part of the vanguard in geriatric surgery. Textbooks of surgery and textbooks of geriatrics cover geriatric surgery very sparingly. You have chosen to tackle a textbook on geriatric surgery.

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  1. Feinstein Institute for Medical Research, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System, 149-37 Powells Cove Blvd, Whitestone, 11357, NY, USA

    Jesse Roth

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  1. School of Medicine, Department of Surgery, Yale University, New Haven, 06520, Connecticut, USA

    Ronnie Ann Rosenthal

  2. Downstate Medical Center, State University of New York, Clarkson Ave. 450, Brooklyn, 11203, New York, USA

    Michael E. Zenilman

  3. , Chairman, Department of Surgery, Sinai Hospital, 2401 West Belvedere Avenue, Baltimore, 21215, Maryland, USA

    Mark R. Katlic

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Roth, J. (2011). Invited Commentary. In: Rosenthal, R., Zenilman, M., Katlic, M. (eds) Principles and Practice of Geriatric Surgery. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-6999-6_1

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