Decision-making in low back surgery.
The author was the 1986 Sir Robert Jones Lecturer of the Hospital for Joint Diseases Orthopaedic Institute. This article is a slightly edited version of the speech he delivered in that capacity on October 24, 1986, at the Annual Scientific Program of the Alumni Association.
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