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Study: Mentoring, social events may decrease burnout in surgery residents
Burnout in surgery residents—associated with higher levels of depression and perceived stress—may be alleviated by programmatic social events, limiting weekend work and formal mentoring programs, a study published in the American Journal of Surgery found. Matthew Smeds, MD, division chief…
Crawford Critical Issues Forum 2020 echoes founding charge
This year’s E. Stanley Crawford Critical Issues Forum is set to come full circle from its very genesis 32 years ago at the Vascular Annual Meeting (VAM) in Chicago. Now a lynchpin of the Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) flagship…
Wellness: Of dreaming in blood and the ‘moral injury’ contained in a healthcare setting
Have you ever “dreamt in blood”? A vivid, waking nightmare that reminds you of exsanguinating hemorrhage that can’t be stopped? I have. An Iraqi war fighter who sustained catastrophic explosive lower-extremity and truncal wounds and required far-forward damage control resuscitation…
Cost of burnout on physician health and surgical performance explored
NEW YORK—It’s the recurring theme on the conference circuit that stubbornly refuses to subside but one whose toll is great and lasting. At the VEITHsymposium in New York (Nov. 19–23, 2019), it was the turn of Samuel R. Money, MD,…
Minority of patients in population of 4M demonstrate rapid progress of carotid stenosis, SAVS prize-winning paper finds
PALM BEACH, Fla.—While the overall incidence of rapid carotid stenosis progression is low, patients who show any degree of a worsening condition may warrant closer follow- up—especially if they bear associated risk factors for such rapid progress. That was a…
Am I my brother’s keeper? A skeptic’s call for peer support in vascular surgery
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 keeper?” Nino’s subsequent murder spree suggests he was not. This well-known phrase first appeared in the…