Carotid… When Hybrid Seems Better: Carotid Trauma As a Model For All Trauma 24 Jun 201724 Jun 2017 History The patient is an 80 year old woman with lung cancer who was getting a port placed at her home institution. It was to be a left subclavian venous…
amputation… When Better is Better Than Good 13 Oct 201513 Oct 2015 The dictum that better is the enemy of good is one of the old chestnuts carried around surgery training forever. It is an admonition against an unhealthy perfectionism that arises…
aortic dissection… Broken Aorta, Advancing Technology 21 Sep 201521 Sep 2015 I recently repaired a traumatic aortic dissection and was struck by how far along things had progressed since I was a resident. I remember seeing a Q&A in the mid…