===== 🧤 Clinical Elegance =====

**Clinical elegance** refers to:

  * The pursuit of technically refined, visually impressive, or intellectually satisfying medical interventions.
  * A style of clinical practice or surgical performance that emphasizes **aesthetic precision**, **procedural finesse**, and **minimal disruption**—often independent of whether these qualities improve **patient outcomes**.

==== ⚠️ Critical Use ====
In critical writing, **clinical elegance** may be used **ironically or pejoratively**, highlighting the **disconnect between surgical beauty and clinical utility**.

> **"The resection was clinically elegant — but the patient never woke up."**

It warns against:
  * Prioritizing elegance over effectiveness
  * Valuing innovation over evidence
  * Confusing minimalism with minimal harm

==== ❗️ Beware When... ====
  * Outcomes are not reported
  * Only intraoperative images or tools are shown
  * Words like “precision,” “refined,” or “atraumatic” replace hard data

**Synonyms (critical tone):** surgical vanity, aesthetic neurosurgery, decorative medicine.

**Opposite:** Evidence-based pragmatism.