All the characteristics and driving force of The Cleveland Clinic are to be found in this book
on pelvic ?oor function. The Cleveland Clinic is a group practice founded in 1921 on the
principles of cooperation collaboration and collegiality.Its founders believed that many
physicians working together will discover better solutions to medical problems than physicians
working in isolation. They believed that the combination of disciplines with their inherent
differences in philosophy and skills will produce a better outcome than might have evolved
singularly. The power of the collaborative approach is on full display in this book. The pelvic
?oor unites three separate organ systems. Before this time each has been approached
individually. Urologists gynecologists and colorectal surgeons are each trained in their own
disciplines and the pelvic ?oor is subsumed in these larger ?elds of study. When they combine
their focus on the pelvic ?oor they bring their unique perspectives and different approaches
to a common goal: the relief of pelvic ?oor syndromes such as incontinence and pelvic organ
prolapse.
