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Helping history come alive online in Vascular Specialist
Medical history is more than just the praise of great heroes and heroines and the nearly mythical stories of serendipitous discovery and invention. It is the means by which we learn to understand and appreciate the qualities and conditions that…
Pioneer Heart Surgeon, Dr. Michael 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…
Pioneers of Heparin
The ready availability of nearly unlimited quantities of biologically-based drugs such as heparin is something that is taken for granted nowadays, such that massive accidental overdoses as recently reported in the news, are considered tragic but by no means incredible.…
Alexis Carrel, the “Father of Anastomoses”
In the first years of the 20th century, Dr. Alexis Carrel (1873-1944) introduced three-point end-to-end vessel anastomosis, a technique that revolutionized vascular surgery. His method, still in common use today, helped earn him the 1912 Nobel Prize in Physiology or…
Valentine Mott and the Innominate Artery
Well before the American Civil War, without benefit of anesthetics and without antiseptics, Dr. Valentine Mott performed some of the first successful operations on the large human arteries, becoming best known for performing the first successful ligation of the innominate…
Five reasons physicians will use mobile health for patient care
Mobile health technologies will become a part of the health care landscape for all stakeholders at some point. Other sectors of society currently cannot function without mobile; for example, retail and financial services consider mobile a vital component of their…
Steps to incorporate business knowledge into the medical school curriculum
Declining reimbursements, health care law changes, and increased costs means the modern physician needs to have knowledge in business, law, and medicine. In today’s health care environment business acumen is becoming a necessity few practices can survive without. A recent…
SVS officer corps on the record: priorities, opportunities and a few revealing facts
President Peter Lawrence—two priorities to drive surgeon and patient education While in Chicago for an SVS officers retreat, President Peter Lawrence took time to outline his agenda and how he hopes it will take SVS forward. VS: What agenda priorities…
The ‘I’s have it: Ethics and the vascular community
Who in their right mind would organize the main event of a surgeons’ convention around the topic of unnecessary procedures? Surely this would almost certainly guarantee an empty auditorium. But Dr. Peter F. Lawrence, President of the Society for Vascular…
Avoid costly billing errors: Register for the 2014 Coding Course
Attend an intensive, two-day program in Chicago this October 10-11 that addresses the most pressing issues about coding and reimbursement, including: • Proposed updates for 2015 • How the global surgical package affects billing and reimbursement • Changes to endovascular…