Tag: Wellness

How the best leaders ensure psychological safety at work

My limited understanding of psychological safety is when people feel safe expressing differing opinions, and thoughts in the workplace. Amy Edmondson, a pioneer in...

The Golden Larva syndrome: Is it real?

Failure is part of the process that leads to success. Occasional failures may sting but we must recognize the adage that failure is a...

Vascular Specialist–July 2023 VAM Review Edition

in this issue: The numbers are in: VAM 2023 adds up to another SVS classic  Guest Editorial: The Golden Larva Syndrome: Is it...

Rockman: A family story of self-identity

Outgoing Society for Vascular Surgery (SCVS) President Caron Rockman, MD, delved into her family history from late-19th century and early- 20th century Russia to...

Trainee wellness: ‘No one really prepared me for the failures’

Communication and an awareness of how often vascular surgery fails emerged as key talking points during a Vascular Surgery Interest Group (VSIG) Lunch Symposium...

Pandemic affected surgeons financially and emotionally, COVID-19 session hears

Besides the stunning death toll and the disruption of life around the world, COVID-19 hit vascular surgeons financially and emotionally. Two presenters at the...

Town Halls to address wellness, appropriate use

The Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) has scheduled two Town Halls for the summer—one to cover vascular surgeon wellness programs (July 13) and the...

‘Grit matters in vascular surgery’

"This is what happens to you when you show grit: You end up being elected president of the American College of Surgeons." Those were among...

A healing touch

Since March 2020, my life has literally spiraled out of control both personally and professionally. The COVID-19 pandemic shattered my life, and I am...

COVID-19: Socially distant yet never closer

We certainly live in interesting times—times in which social distancing has literally become the new normal. COVID-19 came to the United States quietly and...

Elder statesman of venous disease delivers golfing metaphor for fortitude, wellness

AMELIA ISLAND, Fla.—As a podium talk at the annual meeting of the American Venous Forum (AVF), it represented a bit of an outlier. It...

Wellness: Of dreaming in blood and the ‘moral injury’ contained in...

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...

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...