It takes only brief perusal of the article by Beimers and associates1 to realize that, the authors are really suggesting a collapse of the Garden classification. As with anybody who is suggesting something they consider to be new, they misrepresent the old and underestimate the difficulties of the new. Although the illustrations in the original Garden article are anteroposterior views of the hip, displacement in all directions is discussed.
The suggestion that stable versus unstable subcapital fractures is an easier classification is deceptive. In order to function worldwide, one would then have to subclassify each of these categories into what one considers to be stable and what is not stable. This, I suggest, is much more complicated than the relatively simple Garden classification.