title: [Happy who as Ulysse had a nice idea or tale of the brilliant inventor surgeon (BIS) in the Maze].
abstract: Through their personal experience, the authors want to relate the problems a surgeon has to face to make an idea accepted, either on the intellectual or the technical or the material point of view. A surgeon's everyday life, his university cursus and his psychological profile does not prepare him to a very different world, the world of administration, of files, of categories, of laws, of initials, of acronyms. Yes, the surgeon has to deal with this universe if he wants to develop his new concept. The authors relate the great efforts, which are similar sometimes to mythological works, to achieve their aim with a little humour just to survive.
authors.affiliation: Institut aquitain de chirurgie plastique, esthétique et reconstructrice, Bordeaux, France. adf.guimberteau@wanadoo.fr
authors.forename: J-C
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Guimberteau
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Duche
mesh_terms: D035843:Biomedical Research / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D002986:Clinical Trials as Topic; D005602:France; D006801:Humans; D019651:Plastic Surgery Procedures / Q000379:methods / Q000639:trends