To our Medicine colleagues:
When surgeons say a case will be ’more difficult’, they don’t mean it just requires more effort, like a tougher Peloton workout.
It means the case has a higher risk of morbidity, which no amount of skill or perseverance will totally overcome. 🧐
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— The First Lesson as a Surgeon, Inherited from Dr. Yamamoto —
🎯 Let’s start with a question.
There’s a small circle drawn on a piece of paper in front of you.
“Put a dot inside this circle.”
How do you do it?
A: Slowly and carefully, making sure it never goes outside.
B: Quickly — just a quick flick, focusing on speed.
Which is the “right” answer?
Wednesday @OrlandoHealth cases 1, 2 & 3 of the first FDA-approved magnetic colorectal anastomosis trial in the world All three successful. Immediate patency confirmed This tech is everything I believed it would be. The trial continues. #ColorectalSurgery#MagneticAnastomosis
¿Colonoscopia o sangre oculta en heces (iSOH)? Estudio COLONPREV en Gastroenterology:
👉La colonoscopia detecta + lesiones por paciente explorado.
👉iSOH logra + participación, sin diferencias en mortalidad por CCR y + lesiones detectadas en total.
🔗 https://t.co/5ajsApX2wr
Cool part about being a physician is that you get accused of being a pharma shill & forcing pills down peoples’ throats and get yelled at for not prescribing antibiotics for asymptomatic bacteriuria both in the same day.
Dejen de decirle a los pacientes con cáncer que perdieron una batalla o que se rindieron, no son competencias ni ellos eligieron estar pasando por eso, si fallecen, ya descansan y punto.
No son perdedores por morir. No mamen.
The current surgical education system forces all candidates to claim that their goal is to be an academic surgeon engaged in research and teaching, when in fact they may just be interested in a quiet rural general surgical practice that greatly benefits a local community.
Nuestro nuevo metaanálisis sobre HI tras laparotomía media. ¿Qué tan frecuente es y qué factores realmente aumentan el riesgo de desarrollarla? Analizamos datos de casi 800,000 pacientes. La prevalencia global de HI es del 10.1%. Los mayores FR (¡Superan a las comorbilidades!).
In 1980, DeBakey operated on the Shah of Iran. He declares success. Soon, the patient is dead. Reoperation is psychologically brutal: how bias delay truth & what might save us from the same trap. https://t.co/5nZdjJEcmA #MedTwitter#Surgery#MedEd
Being an oncologist is a great profession, but the emotional burden is heavy!
Oncology is the practice of maximizing benefit while balancing toxicity under severe time constraints. Add bureaucratic workload, and you end up ranked third on the list.
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🏅Best of upper gastrointestinal surgery in BJS Open 2025🏅
➡️https://t.co/pVGvSi20Ht
Gastric partitioning versus gastrojejunostomy for gastric outlet obstruction due to unresectable gastric cancer: randomized clinical trial.
➡️https://t.co/nloSTofeCT
New quantitative blood flow assessment of gastric conduit with indocyanine green fluorescence in oesophagectomy: prospective cohort study.
➡️https://t.co/FAebJMFmEt
Effectiveness of a low-glycaemic-index formula on post-gastrectomy hypoglycaemia in patients with gastric cancer: randomized crossover study
➡️https://t.co/smgPG8Mjbq
Current pharmacological and procedural treatments for gastro-oesophageal reflux disease: comprehensive review.
➡️https://t.co/I5M9lULQbH
Laparoscopic versus open repair of perforated peptic ulcer: systematic scoping review and in-depth evaluation of existing evidence.
➡️https://t.co/5HphafEh5q
Selected by @MA__Schneider, Editor BJS Open and @villesallinen , Editor in Chief BJS Open
👏👏👏Thanks to all authors on their outstanding contributions!! #SurgEd #Surgery @BJSurgery
#SoMe4Surgery @BJSAcademy #some4UGI #uppergi #esophagealcancer #gastriccancer #reflux #achalasia @ISDE_net@Augishealth@roux_group@T4UGIS #ESDE @young_esde
Spoiler alert:
Aunque ya tengas consejo y título, para muchos la curva de aprendizaje se lleva hasta 5 años más.
Temo decirte que la vas a seguir cagado.
Es normal. Todo esto son horas de vuelo.
Sigue entrenando y no dejes de leer diario porque te vas a oxidar culerísimo