Highly skilled surgeons may boost colon cancer survival by 70 percent
Highly skilled surgeons may boost colon cancer survival by 70 percent
In a remote Indian village, a murdered family of three walks into a rural clinic asking a surgeon for help. If he can mend the wounds of the dead before sunrise, the family will live again. Stunned, surgeon Saheb takes on the challenge nonetheless—just like doctors do in everyday life, not knowing what they may…
There’s no reason why something as critical as making sure that our surgeons are competent should be left to chance.
Dan’s story and the story most young surgeons have both start with the same simple premise: the more you practice something, the better you get.
It really shouldn’t take a jarring New Yorker piece to make the opioid epidemic, or my role in it, real.
The number of female neurosurgeons in academic leadership positions remains low.
Lack of discussion of preventable adverse events negatively effects surgeons’ well-being.