Quite a long read but very eerie seeing responses from the Google chatbot LaMDA which has been on the news. Hard to not hear semblances of iRobot or ExMachina. Could you turn it off after having such a conversation? #future #ai #consciousness cajundiscordian.medium.com/is-lamda-senti…

The pendulum has swung too far. Penalizing falls in the hospital has resulted in patients who aren’t allowed to get out of bed. They get weaker, depressed, constipated, pressure ulcers and ultimately need SNF placement. Ambulation should be viewed as a key to healing.

These guys are just politicians. The Constitution to them is just a fun tool to help them impose their political views on the entire country. The implausible inconsistency of the guns and abortion rulings is both sickening and revealing.

This Supreme Court has adopted a perverse and disingenuous interpretation of the Constitution. Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, Barrett all recently stated in their confirmation trials that this was settled law. #ReproductiveRightsAreHumanRights youtu.be/9jbHMHN_mfo

Seems like default should be to put colons back together #trauma #damagecontrol journals.lww.com/jtrauma/fullte…

This blue Lobster was caught off the coast of Portland yesterday and returned to the water to continue to grow. Blue lobsters are one in two million.

Surgery residency in a nutshell, might be the right way to do it! Good to think of when kindly asking students or residents to read a CT or answer ABSITE-related questions. Standard protocol UVA Surgery #surgery #MedEd

Attending passing the scalpel to his resident…

First plenary talk, such an amazing experience. Thanks to great mentors Nick Teman Ray Strobel, MD, MSc J. Hunter Mehaffey Few beads of sweat on my forehead... iframe.dacast.com/vod/799b7e1184…

And that’s a wrap! ##VAACS2023 Congratulations to the resident poster and talk winners from today and to President Stefan Leichtle and President Elect Charlie Friel Charles Friel Safe travels, all- looking forward to 2024!

While we seem to be busy figuring out how to *not* operate on appendicitis, the gastroenterologists are pondering how they can intervene on it 🤷‍♂️🤔 It’s called ERAT, and now it’s in top journals: (Paywalled, sorry, breaking my own rule) doi.org/10.1093/bjs/zn…

Amazing that DaVinci has such a vice grip on the market with their education platforms, direct marketing to surgeons and institutions etc. Single port designs are next step but can anyone see how they would retract distant structures using this. Might be good for a lap chole

We have reported a case of restenosis of bovine pericardium patch angioplasty after femoral endarterectomy. Are folks taking into consideration alpha gal syndrome when deciding on implant types? sciencedirect.com/science/articl… Megan Tracci UVA Vascular Surgery Alpha-gal Syndrome Research

I’m more afraid of DeSantis than Trump. Will use DoJ and FBI to support agenda, If Disney case or the blatant disregard for the election of a prosecutor in Hillsborough county who was suspended after speaking about abortion rights is any indication. nationalreview.com/news/desantis-…

>70% overall survival at 10 years after living donor lobar lung transplant in the pediatric population, incredible that the lung grafts demonstrate such impressive growth and potentially new aveolarization JHLT #lungtransplant

Despite obvious concerns about unaccounted confounding in attending cases being more difficult, seems to support supervision-only cases for senior level residents. What about lap/robot cases? #surgicaleducation surgjournal.com/article/S0039-…