It has been several months since our last great debate, but it took General Surgery News extra time to clean up the ring after the last no-holds-barred battle. Many of you have wondered how we could follow up on that prime-time bout. The answer is another timely issue that’s sure to have readers yelling from the sidelines. Nothing could be timelier than a debate that pits new against old, tradition against innovation, peer-reviewed literature versus social media publishing. We have