title: Along with GREPA towards EHS, meeting AHS.
abstract: The popular proverb that says "Happy people have no history" is not true. This short chronicle, from experience inside GREPA-EHS, by one of its founding members, tells the contrary to the reader. It suggests that, by meeting together, hernia surgeons got much welfare through scientific assessment, a more efficient practice, and increased recognition of their art.
authors.affiliation: rene.stoppa@wanadoo.fr
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Stoppa
mesh_terms: D006547:Hernia / Q000503:physiopathology; D059685:Herniorrhaphy; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D012955:Societies, Medical / Q000266:history*