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Knowledge management is the buzzword around corporate America. More than 40% of Fortune 1000 companies have created a Chief Knowledge Officer position,¹ whose goal is to retain corporate memory, to accelerate corporate learning, and to stop "reinvention of the wheel." The practice of medicine is built on corporate memory; a little knowledge management may do us some good too.

Medicine's corporate memory is often 2 or 3 generations long. After that, we tumble forward to reinvent ourselves and to relearn old lessons. An article titled "Radiofrequency Treatment for Obstructive Tonsillar Hypertrophy," which appeared in the June 2000 issue of the ARCHIVES,² typifies this problem in medicine. The article, along with a CD video demonstrating coblation-assisted subtotal tonsillectomy,³ is representative of a recent resurgence in this procedure. Although both research groups thought they were breaking new ground, radiofrequency subtotal tonsillectomy was widely performed in the 1920s and 1930s.

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