Association of Women Surgeons
JUNE 16, 2024
Tyler Crawley Pride in residency is difficult, especially in surgery. How you are evaluated and how you are … Continue reading "Pride in the Operating Room: How the Structure of Surgical Residency Can Keep Us in the Closet"
Incision
DECEMBER 18, 2023
Surgical care is the product of numerous interprofessional interactions, reflected in several key multidisciplinary teams. In a healthcare unit, shift patterns often prevent the formation of consistent operative teams — routinely bringing unfamiliar professionals together to fill rotas and maintain services. What’s a Familiar Team?
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The Anesthesia Consultant
APRIL 26, 2018
Norman Shumway MD PhD, a Stanford surgical professor and legend, invented the heart transplantation procedure and performed the first heart transplant in the USA on January 6, 1968 in operating room 13 of Stanford University Hospital. We’d climb in and ride at top speed back to Stanford. At this point I went home.
The Anesthesia Consultant
APRIL 20, 2019
Chapter 1 THE BRICKLAYER Alec Lucas’s first contact with FutureCare came in operating room #19 at the University of Silicon Valley Medical Center, where his patient Elizabeth Anderson blinked into the twin suns of the surgical lights hanging from the ceiling. A red sea rose between them. The blood is everywhere.”
The Anesthesia Consultant
OCTOBER 12, 2015
The text read: 911 call me I was administering an anesthetic to a 41-year-old woman in an operating room at Stanford University, while a neurosurgeon worked to remove a meningioma tumor from her brain. I scanned the operating room monitors and confirmed that her vital signs were perfect. Her life was my responsibility.
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