Spine surgery in the era of healthcare reform: An age of Aquarius or an age of Mars?

摘要

The poet Hesiod postulated five ages of the development of humankind through which all creation must pass. In this paradigm, a Golden Age of intellectual foment and development gives way to a Heroic Age where great achievements become possible through the creative energies unleashed in the earlier epoch. This invariably is followed by an Iron Age, an Age of Mars, where the accomplishments rendered in the Heroic Age are in turn beset by strife and conflict. The challenges of the Age of Mars ultimately give way to the Age of Aquarius, which potentiates some kind of Utopia.