DOI: 10.1097/SCS.0b013e3182a98ff1
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PMID: 24036715
Issn Print: 1049-2275
Publication Date: 2013/09/01
Ethics, Safety and Excellence as a Future Slogan That Need Appropriation
Excerpt
Looking out of my window on a Saturday morning, I started singing and whistling the tune What a Wonderful Day. The shabby home days are all over, at least for now. The thunder storms had ceased to exist, so no more computer crashes, the rain had stopped, so the puddles on the streets have dried out, so no more the fertile grounds for mosquitoes. So this wonderful day I am viewing for myself is for windsurfing, sailing, as well as board paddling. My imagination doesn’t go too far before a text message comes through, “Dear Editor, your next editorial for the journal is due. Please complete and send to the editorial manager.” It was like a shock wave that woke me up from my trance. The wonderful day for outdoor activities is now changed to indoors in front of the computer to spend with Word for Windows. I picked up my red note book, which I call “vision for future projects,” and looked for what I have determined to be my future topic so that I can share it with my friends and colleagues, and above all, the dedicated readers of the journal. So the imagination and wishful thinking went by the way side and now I was up to serious business. Well, I just came back from the Far East observing and evaluating the rapid changes that took place in the last twenty five years, at least from the time the Journal of Craniofacial Surgery started. It is not only relative to craniofacial surgery, but also plastic surgery in general as an organizational structure within the medical field. These observations on the land are also coupled with my statistical evaluation on the contributions to the journal and particularly since we have the translations going on in the journal. Without doubt, reversal of innovation is coming in slowly and surely as the contributions from over the Far East are increasing in frequency, quality, and substance, as viewed over the journal pages. There is also an added element of vision, imagination, and advances that are in pure sense, educational in nature. That for sure will share with the rest of the global students, and in essence, will mean the rest of the surgical global community that will find such information beneficial. Twenty five years ago when the journal was founded, we noted in an note in the journal that there were not any contributions coming from the other part of the world and they were mainly from the Atlantic basin. We were hoping that will not continue as a trend so our hopes came to be true and the rest of the global community opened up too. That observation is now gone, and during my latest visit and seeing the patients in real life, that was a real eye opener in the progress that have been taking place that is so impressive. Adding on top of that came the clinical and research rounds made with the younger generation of surgeons — what an impressive and energetic group of surgeons. Each fellow have a project in research, mostly bench research aided, is supervised by a full time faculty who is a scientist, and is fluent in the discussion in the universal English language and in their native language.
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