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The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Hospitals and Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) has...
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Author: Bruce Davis
Handling Risk
“For sheer unadulterated ego, no one is a match for fighter pilots. Except maybe surgeons....
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Handling Sin
There’s an old adage in surgery that says: “It takes 2 years to teach a resident how to operate...
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Protocols Mean No One Has to Think
Let me say up front that I do not object to protocols in principle. I have been responsible for...
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Abominable Pain
A few months ago, one of those silly Facebook surveys asked me to name the ten most influential...
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Cancer Care as a Business Decision
My wife is a Primary Care Nurse Practitioner. She works with a very good Internist who gives her a...
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The Etiquette of Help
“Any surgeon to OR 6 STAT. Any surgeon to OR 6 STAT.” No surgeon wants to hear or respond to a...
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Ebola, Leadership, and Responsibility
I am a surgeon. I am not an Epidemiologist nor an Infectious Disease specialist. Anything I say on...
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Brothers and Sisters
She was 16-years-old, a backseat passenger in a rollover car crash. The driver died at the scene,...
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Rediscovering First Principles, or Grand Futile Gestures
Late night Saturday trauma, 59-year-old woman in a high speed head on collision. She was not...
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Ruptures and Redo’s
Today was hernia day in the office. That wasn’t the intent; it was just the way the referrals came...
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An Ethical Dilemma
Cicero once said, “Treat not with men who have no honor. You are both dishonored in the exchange...
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