In this issue:
- “Vital signs”: Reporting from the Southern Association for Vascular Surgery (SAVS) annual meeting on skyrocketing nursing costs and their contribution to a financial hit on a vascular division’s bottom line (p. 1 and 10)
- February’s guest editorialist Bhagwan Satiani, MD, asks: “Silence is golden—but does self-imposed silence lead to burnout?” (p. 2 and 4)
- Fresh data on vascular trauma presented at SAVS add to body of evidence demonstrating vascular surgery’s important role in a level 1 trauma center setting, researchers behind a new study say (p. 11)
- Resident/fellow editor Christopher Audu, MD, discusses diversity efforts while in training and whether they represent just another box that needs to be checked (p. 21)
