Gerard Doherty

Moseley Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School | Chair of Surgery, Mass General Brigham

[Gerard Doherty @gmdoherty]

I am so proud to be associated with this department and its consistent ethos of excellence, empathy, mutual support, curiosity, hard work and respect.

@zaracMD @dougsmink @Atul_Gawande @CSPH_BWH @BrighamWomens @steppingstrong1 @harvardmed @DanaFarber @MassGenBrigham

[Brigham and Women’s Department of Surgery @BrighamSurgery]

We are pleased to share our 2021 Annual Report! Over the past year, we have continued to build on our proud history of clinical and academic achievements. Read about our ongoing commitment to excellence in clinical care, research and surgical education. https://t.co/ox79uw8fT8

[Omar Selim MD, MSc, FRCSC, RPVI @oselimvasc]

Excited to have joined @BrighamVascular @MassGenBrigham as an associate surgeon! I’d like to thank everyone at @TuftsMCSurgery for an amazing few years. Looking forward to great things in the horizon and great to be working with familiar faces! @ma_hussainMD

[Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo @KBibbinsDomingo]

Wonderfully innovative ideas & great energy at the @JAMASurgery Board meeting! Great to work with editors!

[Paige Newell @paige_newellMD]

Brigham was lucky today to have such an iconic Grand Rounds Speaker. @AJGTempleSurg is the reason I went into surgery and strive to be “an internist who operates”. Forever #TempleMade @templemedschool @TempleSurgery @zoe_maher @Lizddauer @TheScottCharles

[Gerard Doherty @gmdoherty]

As children, Ice Cream Truck music drew us out to buy a treat.

Now there is a masked bicycle guy with a large backpack & loud music who rides around @BPLBoston Copley; folks flag him down to buy drugs.

Good marketing works in many contexts.

Seems obvious @bostonpolice?

[Gerard Doherty @gmdoherty]

Stray scarf in Homan’s this morning.

First thought: BC colors/@MeganSulciner

Second thought: Gryffindor colors/@RojasMehida

[Lily Saadat @SaadatLily]

So proud of super⭐️ @stef_soelling for her TWO presentations at ACS2023. Changing the landscape of surgical feedback and improving QOL for patients. @gmdoherty @dougsmink @BrighamSurgery

[Brigham Education Institute @BrighamBEI]

The #BEICongrats our @BrighamWomens colleague, @realgmolina for receiving an Office for Diversity, Inclusion and Community Partnership (DICP) Faculty Fellowship from @harvardmed!

#MedEd #MedTwitter

@BrighamSurgery @CSPH_BWH

https://t.co/9g2HyU2znA

[Christine Wu @Christine_Wu2]

If you’re applying for #Match2024 sign up now for our @BrighamSurgery virtual meet & greet and learn what it’s like to be #BrighamTrained 💪🏼 We look forward to meeting you! @gmdoherty @StephanieNitzs2 @MatthewNehsMD @NancyLCho @GeoffAndersonMD

[Matthew A. Nehs @MatthewNehsMD]

This is a phenomenal article

[Gerard Doherty @gmdoherty]

This is an intriguing approach to an insidious and lethal disease. @JAMASurgery @MSKCancerCenter @DanaFarber @BrighamWomens @MDAndersonNews

Salpingectomy for the Primary Prevention of Ovarian Cancer https://t.co/MeDXXq2PC9

[Gerard Doherty @gmdoherty]

It’s a new academic year. Hail to the Chiefs! ⁦@BrighamSurgery⁩ ⁦@BrighamWomens⁩ ⁦@harvardmed⁩

[Matthew A. Nehs @MatthewNehsMD]

Congratulations to Dr. Krumeich @LaurenNorell on finishing her last day as our Harvard Endocrine Surgery Fellow. She's off to @UMichSurgery to start her career in academic Endocrine Surgery. Bon Voyage and Go Blue!

[Elliott R Haut, MD, PhD, MAMSE @elliotthaut]

@AdilHaiderMD @JAMASurgery @JAMA_current @KBibbinsDomingo @kibbemr @SoCalYuman @AmirGhaferi @sherrywren @leahbackhusmd @timpawlik @TsengJennifer @gmdoherty Back in person for @JAMASurgery editorial board. Thanks again to @kibbemr on your outstanding leadership of the journal.

[Alexander P Cole @Putnam_Cole]

Thanks to @BWHUrology @BWHRadEdu @DFCIPopSci @DanaFarber_GU @zaracMD @adamkibel_uro @gmdoherty for their support along with fab mentorship team @mrsprostate @qdtrinh @TimRebbeck @DrHQRana and others

[Gerard Doherty @gmdoherty]

I wish I understood cricket @ProfG_Edinsurg. This is like one of those dreams in which one arrives for the final exam but doesn’t recognize the course material.

[Will Lyons @Will_Lyons]

Just catching my breath…

[Matthew A. Nehs @MatthewNehsMD]

@DrGaryHammer @TheEndoSociety Great discussion on the workup and treatment of ACC at #ENDO2023. Thanks to @DrGaryHammer for the opportunity to share a surgical perspective and highlight the collaborative team approach for these complex cases

[Gary D Hammer, MDPhD @DrGaryHammer]

Much appreciated discussing ACC clinical vignettes with @MatthewNehsMD and engaged adrenophilic colleagues. Thanks all 🙏 😊 @TheEndoSociety #ENDO2023

[Gerard Doherty @gmdoherty]

@MDsarecomplicit Again, free speech is a wonderful thing.

I admire your commitment to our profession.

But residents voting to strike is a disaster.

[Gerard Doherty @gmdoherty]

As my wife often ways, “Free speech is a wonderful thing, because then you find out what people really think.”

Unions are fine. I was in one as a resident, & was PD for unionized residents at 2 teaching hospitals

But a strike would hurt everyone: patients, residents & hospitals

[Pratik ‘Tik’ Patel, MD @DrPHO_ID]

George Tolis is section chief of CT surgery at @BrighamWomens.

Let’s poll some other surgeons out there, @JBMatthews @TomVargheseJr @DavidCookeMD @tomcnguyen @STS_CTsurgery @leahbackhusmd @maryhawn @HopkinsCTSurg @DrSteveMD @CTSurgCareers @OPreventzaMD @EACTS, thoughts?

[Gerard Doherty @gmdoherty]

@DrPHO_ID A strike would be a disaster for everyone - patients, hospital and residents.

Hospitals CAN run more efficiently without residents, if designed/staffed to do so. Part of the rationale for IME $ is the decreased efficiency of teaching hospitals. But a strike is not a redesign.

[Gerard Doherty @gmdoherty]

In the meantime, we shouldn’t respond to any of this with acrimony or by denigrating anyone’s valid complaints. None of us created this system, but we do have the opportunity to improve it.

[Gerard Doherty @gmdoherty]

@maryhawn is probably right (as usual) - our system for preparing physicians for practice by bartering (patient care service) for (training +salary) may be due for an overhaul.