Unstable and bleeding from multiple gun shot wounds to the abdomen, the patient appeared, to my untrained eyes, a goner. Fortunately for this patient, I was a newbie Intern starting my General Surgery residency and nobody asked for my opinion. My job, as second assistant, was to “hold hooks” and […]
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“They’re refusing to comply, now what do we do?” That was the first thing I heard from one of our facility Chief Medical Officers (CMO) after implementing an Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS) Program for bowel surgery across our system. ERAS programs were well established in the literature, so I […]
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Robotic assisted surgery. You either love it or hate it. How has a tool designed to facilitate minimally invasive surgery become so divisive among surgeons and hospital administrators? Everyone is waiting for the definitive prospective, randomized trial that will, once and for all, determine the “truth” about robotic assisted surgery. […]
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