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Malachi Sheahan III
This signal brings noise
Last month, my friend Nikhil Kansal detailed in Vascular Specialist why the Association for Program Directors in Vascular Surgery (APDVS) elected to implement Preference Signaling in the upcoming Integrated Vascular Surgery Match. Here I will explain why I think this…
Fear and loathing in a post-CREST-2 world
Medical editor Malachi Sheahan III, MD, reflects on the release of the CREST-2 results and considers what they may mean for clinical practice. As you likely know, the long-awaited CREST-2 trial results were recently released. While panic and jubilation erupt…
A call for call pay
Medical editor Malachi Sheahan III, MD, makes the case for surgeon call pay, a remuneration he says should be understood more as compensation than reimbursement. The strongest desire of my early youth was to attain an Atari 2600TM video game…
A New Orleanian’s guide to New Orleans
Welcome! Our city is humid, crumbling and vaguely supernatural. Make the right choices and you will never forget your time here. Double that if you make the wrong ones. Here are some personal favorites. Restaurants: Lilette, Clancy’s, Paladar 511 and…
The Survivalist’s Guide to Heart and Vascular Centers
Malachi Sheahan III, MD, produces notes on a quixotic quest to find meaning in one of medicine’s most meaningless endeavors. Here’s how it happens. One day, you are walking through your hospital, and you notice a pack of incongruously well-dressed…
So you want to marry a surgeon?
In the second of a two-part series of editorials, Vascular Specialist Medical editor Malachi Sheahan III, MD, offers further insight into the world of surgeon-surgeon marriages with a little help from a few friends. Welcome to the first Vascular Specialist…
Marriage and other things I’m probably doing wrong
I met my wife, Claudie, at the Harvard Medical School vascular research lab. This was not a romantic environment by most standards (depending, I suppose, on your feelings towards Mike Conte). Many of the researchers were general surgery residents invigorated…
I am not your burnout expert
Look, I am not a burnout expert. And neither are you (presumably). None of us know much, but that won’t stop the regulations from coming. Program directors are already being asked to provide “wellness plans.” Through the SVS, experts have…