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Who harmed who?
In his address at the 2024 Vascular Annual Meeting (VAM), Society for Vascular Surgery Immediate Past President Joseph Mills, MD, eloquently stated—and please excuse the paraphrase Dr. Mills—that we as a specialty need to come together and become cohesive, as…
The CLTI conundrum: My spirited journey through the CLTI saga
Welcome to the CLTI Chronicles, a saga of mystery, medicine and misadventures in limb salvage unfolding weekly in my office, where the drama of threatened limbs rivals any Latin telenovela. My clinic has become a crossroads for the second opinion…
Who’s covering second? Rogue hospital human resource departments
While nobody died, the procedure could have gone smoother. The patient, a corpulent man in his late 40s had been on dialysis for half of his life. Two transplanted kidneys failed, and multiple access procedures and his native arteries and…
Beyond private equity: A new sheriff in town
Bhagwan Satiani, MD, explores the entrance of insurance companies into the physician practice acquisition market. The well-written recent editorial from Mal Sheahan, Vascular Specialist medical editor, explained the case against private equity in medicine, and what is at stake for…
Welcome to VAM 2024!
To help us preview some of the sessions of interest I reached out to the chairs of the SVS Program and Postgraduate Education Committees—Andy Schanzer, Jason Lee, Will Robinson, and Claudie Sheahan. I’ll let you guess which one did not…
From the editor: House of Cards
On Jan. 22, 2024, the American Heart Association (AHA) and the American College of Cardiology (ACC), together with three other major cardiology societies, submitted a proposal for the formation of the American Board of Cardiovascular Medicine. Essentially, the 157-page document…
UK-COMPASS: Aortas, open surgical skills and gratitude
As you read this, you are probably wondering why the heck I am writing an editorial on complex aortic aneurysms when you know I am somewhere in the South focused on vascular trauma and limb ischemia. Well, no good deed…
Increasing access and decreasing scientific bias: How open access is changing academic publishing
There has been much talk recently on open access publishing and the costs associated with this mode of publication. While editor-in-chief positions within most scientific journals are academic roles involved with the overall content published within journals and not the…
The devil we don’t know: The case against private equity in medicine
My household had a longstanding Christmas tradition. In the months leading up to the big day, my wife would craft a gift budget for our three sons. She would then blow said budget on mirth-busters like socks, books and, heaven…
A proposal to save vascular surgery
In response to recent articles in the lay press suggesting vascular surgeons were performing unnecessary procedures, Vascular Specialist medical editor, Malachi Sheahan, has asked me to write an editorial based on a talk I presented at the 2023 VEITHsymposium. At…