Malachi Sheahan III
The devil we don’t know: The case against private equity in...
My household had a longstanding Christmas tradition. In the months leading up to the big day, my wife would craft a gift budget for...
From the editor: Sex, lies, and carotid stents
First, a disclaimer. This commentary is woefully short of sex-related content. Not even the wholesome gender-based outcomes stuff. So, if that key term brought...
BEST-CLI vs. BASIL-2: Different questions yield different answers
Medical editor Malachi Sheahan III, MD, takes a look at seemingly conflicting results from the landmark BEST-CLI and BASIL-2 trials, and asks what they...
‘Nobody believed us’: Vascular giant discusses overcoming skeptics to make specialty-defining...
Malachi Sheahan III, MD, Vascular Specialist’s medical editor, speaks to living legend and limb-salvage pioneer Frank J. Veith, MD, on the contents of his...
We can honor the past without living in it
Malachi Sheahan III, MD, peels back the layers on why a decision by the Southern Association for Vascular Surgery (SAVS) to replace its signature...
An open letter to the National Rifle Association
Hello,
I think it is time we talked about guns. I know you don’t like to discuss these things after a school shooting, so I...
A modest proposal: Let’s eat the trauma surgeons
Well folks, after more than two years of the pandemic, racial injustice, and medical misinformation, I have decided it is time to return to...
Our past is prologue: We are losing the battle to train...
My mother was a child of the 1960s. Despite not having a college degree, she was determined to teach my sister and me that...
Our forever plague
The following is a combined and revised version of the November and December 2021 editorials on fake news and science denial published in Vascular...
PCBs: Panel of vascular surgeons review latest findings on paclitaxel-coated balloons
A recent meta-analysis by Konstantinos Katsanos, MD, of Patras University Hospital, Rion, Greece, and colleagues—“Risk of major amputation following application of paclitaxel-coated balloons ...
It is time to end the interview
INTERVIEWER: “Good morning, nice to meet you. Are you going to get pregnant?” While this may seem like a shocking way to begin a...
An open letter to Epic Systems
Dear Epic,
I am not writing to you today as a customer, but rather on behalf of your users. More specifically, I am representative...
Target 2021: SVS councils and committees drill down on key goals...
While there is little doubt the pandemic has impacted each vascular surgeon and the SVS as a Society in numerous ways, the commitment and...
Target 2021: SVS councils and committees drill down on key goals...
While there is little doubt the pandemic has impacted each vascular surgeon and the SVS as a Society in numerous ways, the commitment and...
Target 2021: SVS councils and committees drill down on key goals...
While there is little doubt the pandemic has impacted each vascular surgeon and the SVS as a Society in numerous ways, the commitment and...
Target 2021: SVS councils and committees drill down on key goals...
While there is little doubt the pandemic has impacted each vascular surgeon and the SVS as a Society in numerous ways, the commitment and...
Target 2021: SVS councils and committees drill down on key goals...
While there is little doubt the pandemic has impacted each vascular surgeon and the SVS as a Society in numerous ways, the commitment and...
Present imperfect
On the morning of Nov. 9, I received a phone call from my sister. My father had been found unresponsive in his Manhattan apartment...
Science at twilight: Reasserting our democratic responsibility
Thomas Jefferson sat alone in a Philadelphia boarding house. He was nervous; much was riding on the words he would now write. The sovereignty...
Sheahan: On professionals and professionalism
On March 19, 2019, I sat in the audience of the scientific sessions at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Clinical Vascular Surgery...
Faith and flaw: The replication crisis is here
In 2011, a new research study proved the existence of precognition, also known as Extra-Sensory Perception (ESP). The manuscript was published in the Journal...
Latest edition of USPSTF guidance produces essential reiteration, continuing to leave...
The United States Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) recently released an update to their 2014 abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) screening recommendations. The update is...
Am I my brother’s keeper? A skeptic’s call for peer support...
In the classic 1991 movie, “New Jack City,” drug dealer Nino Brown rhetorically asks his gang (the Cash Money Brothers), “Am I my brother’s...
Who won the Bouffant War? Science, snark, and sartorial folly in...
A few years ago, hospitals around the country began to receive citations for improper operative attire. Ears exposed, arms exposed, nape of neck exposed,...
The paclitaxel paradox
As medical editor of Vascular Specialist, it has always been my hope to use our excellent reporters and rapid production schedule to keep readers...
An open letter to our hospital consultants
Dear hospital consultants: Just thought I would write and give you a quick update on our situation, not that you asked. As you recall,...
I want you to do my job
It is never easy to replace a legend. The Vascular Specialist that Russell Samson has left behind does not require saving. There are, however,...
Opioids and us: Designed to fail
AIDS, the Vietnam War, whatever your preferred scale for measuring horrific events, the numbers from the opioid crisis are as grave or worse. And,...
Gods and monsters
For the first time in history, four generations of physicians work side by side in the U.S. health care system. An expanding population, longer...
Are we OK?
Lately, I’ve been thinking a lot about you and me. No, not being creepy. I meant all of us, vascular surgeons. Something might be...