Spine surgery in Italy between neuro and ortho surgeons

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As in every year, at the end of a series of lessons on spine surgery to the residents of the last year of orthopaedics at Milan University, I asked if anyone was interested in spine and therefore intended to follow this surgery, bearing in mind that the request for orthopaedic surgeons who wanted to work on the spine is very high; this includes our hospital and therefore the employment is practically certain. The repay was the same as in recent years: although considering this kind of surgery interesting, nobody intended to take that road. A particularly interesting observation, somewhat naive but full of meaning, was made by a resident stating that the spine is not part of orthopaedics and that it is something apart, on the border between neurosurgery and orthopaedics. …