I don’t usually brag about our residency program, but today I’m gonna make an exception. Like other children’s hospitals, we’re managing a surge in respiratory illness. But unlike most hospitals, we’re gonna pay the residents who work extra overnight/weekend shifts $100/hour.

Being a lefty in surgery means getting really excited when your attending is also a lefty, so you get to suture lefty on the robot🥲 #southpaw

doc-on-the-run There are no “dumb” consults. A consult is a request for help. Go see the patient. Provide your expertise. Reassure the patient. Communicate with compassion. Repeat as necessary.

Mobile aortic thrombi as seen on cardiac mri ⬇️ #MedTwitter

Very satisfying massive clot removed for pulmonary embolectomy from Dr. Erik Beyer

🎉🎉Congratulations to Loyola Vascular Surgery fellowship alum, Dr. Kala Zorn- now officially a Board Certified Vascular Surgeon!🎉🎉

Members of the UTHSC Division of Trauma/Surgical Critical Care wore orange T-shirts today to honor the lives of those affected by gun violence. Last year, the Elvis Presley Trauma Center Regional One Health, treated 1,407 people for gun shot wounds. #WearOrange The University of Tennessee Health Science Center UTHSC College of Medicine

🧵for new residents and students: Over the last year, I've done 9 threads on different suture materials. Included here are links to each of these. I'll leave this 'pinned' for now. They are: Prolene, silk, Vicryl, PDS, Ethibond, Nylon, Monocryl, Chromic, and barbed sutures.

Congratulations to Loyola's Department of Surgery PGY-2 General Surgery resident Dr. Kelley Chan for being recognized for her excellence in performance on the vascular surgery service! Loyola Surgery Bernadette Aulivola cfbechara Michael Soult Paul Crisostomo Lindsey Korepta Vivian Gahtan

The Left-Handed Brand New Surgery Intern 🧵 As the new academic year kicks off, there is always the topic of “handed-ness” when discussing old school gastrointestinal surgery. Besides being considered the ‘devil’s hand,’ there is no quicker way to get under an old HPB surgeon’s

Adeel Khan, MD, a WashU Surgery transplant surgeon at Barnes-Jewish, has performed the first robotic liver transplant in the U.S. #WashUMed

RUTHLESS AND RELENTLESS 💥 Lindsey Horan

Come one, come all! Loyola Surgery hosting a meet and greet (virtually, but with enthusiasm) with the current residents and program director. Snacks will be provided (by you, wherever you may be). #eras2023 #residency Vivian Gahtan Steven De Jong

This is your annual reminder that Dixieland Delight is a song about ✨Tennessee✨ #GBO #BigOrangeFriday

A 70-year-old man undergoing cholangioscopy to evaluate dilatation of the common bile duct was found to have flatworms in his biliary tract (shown in a video). Read the full clinical case: nej.md/3NAhXE0

#ABSITE is 3 weeks away and as a self-proclaimed terrible test taker, I want to share some of my favorite vids in the hopes of getting you even just 1 more question right on the big day. So here is my StayCurrentMD summary of pediatric inguinal hernias youtu.be/wmVRYjKSabo?si…

TW: suicide There is an empty corner desk in a resident workroom at GW. Now forever engraved in my mind, that desk is a harrowing reminder of the cost of medical training. In his final words, Dr. William West said that he was simply out of gas, that he had nothing left to give.

NEW: Today, for the first time in the history of our office, I am issuing a Surgeon General’s Advisory on Firearm Violence. Firearm violence is a public health crisis in America that poses a serious threat to the health and well-being of our country. Surgeongeneral.gov/firearm-violen… 1/10

Absolutely thrill this is out. Grateful for mentors Yue-Yung Hu, MD, MPH Erika Rangel and the amazing Lauren Janczewski, MD, MS for carrying this through. We can do better. And we should to keep our workforce diverse and fulfilling.

Kids shouldn’t die in school. Period.