An alarming list of some crazy things our colleagues have done in the recent past.
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Professional Affairs
February 21, 2018
A well-written, brief, pessimistic editorial on the loss of surgeon autonomy in innovation.
February 14, 2018
Filmed at the 2017 STS Annual Meeting, Amy Fiedler, Ahmad Sheikh, Joseph Cleveland, Ravi Ghanta and Mara Antonoff discuss the transition from residency to practice.
February 14, 2018
Interesting article commenting on the perception that some remedies in medicine are so obviously beneficial that testing their effectiveness is a waste of time. As it turns out, many of what physicians think are "slam dunk" remedies have mixed or negative results.
February 7, 2018
Filmed at the 2017 STS Annual Meeting, Blair Marshall, Virginia Litle, Andrea Wolf, and Mara Antonoff discuss the experience of motherhood as cardiothoracic surgeons.
January 25, 2018
A large follow-up study comparing repair and replacement results and trends. Of particular interest to the UK and European readership is the page 113 discussion on the center of mitral excellence principle.
January 22, 2018
An interesting article from a popular UK newspaper, reflecting perhaps the views of members of government and public in confining UK medical graduates to largely low-paid work for five years after graduation, on the socialist principle that the public has paid for their education (they pay quite a lot themselves as well, and end up in debt).
January 18, 2018
The authors describe a clinical unit developed at their institution designed to implement "nudges" to help improve health care delivery, primarily through the EMR. "Nudges" have been used to shape other behaviors, such as offering opt-out (rather than opt-in) for organ donor status to encourage increased organ donation. The concept was described
January 13, 2018
Interesting research/opinion piece about how the introduction of robots has forced a change in surgical training, with some residents gaining skill through a process of "shadow learning."
January 12, 2018
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