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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 this area, defines it as “the belief that the environment is safe for interpersonal risk-taking.”1 Although…
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 “bruise, not a tattoo.” I knew a mid-career faculty member some years ago who was rapidly…
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 deliver a poignant message to Annual Symposium attendees during the 2022 SCVS Presidential Address: “the importance…
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 panel discussion aimed at providing trainees and medical students with career guidance during the Western Vascular…
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 Vascular Annual Meeting (VAM) special session on COVID-19 on Wednesday afternoon discussed these impacts. It may…
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 other to discuss the SVS’ first-ever appropriate use criteria (AUC) guidelines being developed on intermittent claudication…
‘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 the words delivered by Gilbert R. Upchurch Jr., MD, in his presidential address at the…
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 still left picking up the pieces, wondering if it will ever be put back together again.…
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 then hit like a brick, creating a national emergency. It is almost difficult to remember what…
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 was, the presenter admitted, the only non-scientific talk on the program. But the speaker was no…