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Solving the Surgical Workforce Dilemma
“For every complex problem, there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.” – H.L. Mencken Every time I think about trying to solve the complex problems of surgical workforce, I am reminded of that great line from H.L.…
The Prince of Surgery: Sir Astley Cooper
Imagine ligating an arterial aneurysm in the early 1800s, when clipper ships were the fastest mode of transport. Thomas Jefferson was still President and not just the face on the $20 bill, and there was no anesthesia beyond plenty of…
Primary Care Physicians Don’t Get Patients Well
(Editor’s Note: Read Dr. George Andros’ introduction to this installment of Veith’s Viewpoint.) The Affordable Care Act (ACA) has the laudable goals of extending health care insurance coverage and reducing overall health care costs. However, hidden in the more than…
Who Gains, Who Pays?
Once you’ve read this month’s Veith’s Viewpoint, you will see it doesn’t shy away from topical and highly controversial realities that will come into sharper focus through the national election and for months and years to come. Americans demand, and…
Welcome to the August Online Issue: Take the SVS Survey
When the Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) was approached to become involved in assessing vascular out-patient centers (OEC) the Clinical Practices Committee (CPC) convened to examine this topic that was arousing so much interest and concern among providers and patients.…
Outpatient Endovascular Suites: Are They Good for the Patient or the Doctor?
[Read the Editorial/Take the Survey Below!] Vascular surgeons, as well as related specialists, have increasingly become involved in the ownership of outpatient endovascular suites as proprietors (individual or partnered with other physicians or hospitals) or through lease arrangements. As such…
Rudolph Matas, M.D.
Rudolph Matas, M.D, is yet another of the famous surgeons of the past 2 centuries to whom the sobriquet “father of Vascular Surgery” has been applied, primarily for his pioneering studies on and surgical treatment of aneurysms before the era…
E. Stanley Crawford
Ernest Stanley Crawford (1922-1992) was an internationally renowned cardiovascular surgeon whose greatest technical work involved innovative surgical techniques in the treatment of complex aortic diseases and diseases of the heart. He was a tremendous innovator who became the co-inventor of…
John Hunter and the Vasculature
“If Hunter were to return to life, nothing, I believe, would grieve him so much as the fact that tying the femoral artery where its coats are sound for the treatment of popliteal aneurysm is counted one of ‘his major…
Michael E. DeBakey
Dr. Michael Ellis DeBakey, pioneer heart surgeon and medical device innovator, died July 11, 2008, in Houston, about 2 months shy of his 100th birthday on Sept. 7. In his lifetime, Dr. DeBakey was renowned for his immense contributions to…