We are surgeons and we operate beyond our knives and operating rooms. Underneath our incisions is a world that we must be part of #racism #gunviolence are public health issues #ThisIsOurLane

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It takes less time to do a thing right than to explain why you did it wrong. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, American poet

I’m getting my first colonoscopy tomorrow. TMI? I don’t care. Colonoscopies save lives.

#1 reason to break with your intermittent fasting is Parkland Health's honey butter biscuit. Gotta get 'em in with only 4 months left in Dallas. UTSW Surgery Residents if you know you know 🎉🎉🎉

The same people who are claiming to be pro-life, are the ones who value guns over human life. How is it that Guns have more rights than Women in America!?

If the American people could vote directly on common sense gun laws I suspect we would be in a very different place from where we are now.

I’m a gun owner. Do not tell me our Founders conceived of this carnage when they wrote the Constitution. Do not tell me they would have tolerated this madness. Do not tell me that teachers must be armed. And do not tell me your AR15 is worth more than another 14 children’s lives.

The moment to stop Uvalde was right after Sandy Hook. After Santa Fe High. After El Paso. Instead, Abbott made it easier to carry guns in public. The moment to stop the next slaughter is right now.

Across the country, parents are putting their children to bed, reading stories, singing lullabies—and in the back of their minds, they’re worried about what might happen tomorrow after they drop their kids off at school, or take them to a grocery store or any other public space.

It's weird. I'm seeing a lot of mental gymnastics on the Twitter trying to figure out why things like this keep happening. But every pediatric truma surgeon seems to be saying the same thing. Where are all the pro-gun pediatric surgeons?

Attention attention: March For Our Lives Dallas, TX secure.everyaction.com/L5ju2unCPEasTo…

I have a new lecture I give in the SICU on Fridays and it has nothing to do with traumatic brain injury, hyponatremia or sepsis. I’ve called it my “internship survival pack.” First, it requires food for an active audience (if you bring food, they may come. And stay.) 1/

Your Wellness Chiefs hard at work! Look out for a fun August, we will roll out our residency wide events soon ❤️

Can not wait to be a AAST with this human! Kristen Burke UofL Dept of Surgery is gonna be 🤯🤯 no one else I’d rather do this with!!! Jamie Coleman, MD FACS Jason Smith MD, PhD, MBA @BrandonRBruns1 @RPDumasMD Michael Cripps thank you all!!!!

Wow. The Los Angeles Dodgers have re-signed Outfielder Andrew Toles who has schizophrenia and hasn’t played since 2018, so he would still have access to the team’s health insurance and mental health services. Toles is not expected to play for the Dodgers this season and will