What stops us from speaking truth to power is not a desire for harmony. It’s a climate of fear and futility. When leaders fail to make it safe and worthwhile to be honest, we bite our tongues. Weak leaders stifle dissent and leave themselves weaker. Strong leaders welcome

Congratulations Dr. Julie G. Pilitsis, M.D., Ph.D., M.B.A. !!!

Born enslaved in Georgia, Dr. Eliza Grier earned her MD from Woman’s Medical College Of Pennsylvania in 1897 after years of alternating her coursework with periods of work to pay for her education. She received her medical license as a practicing physician in Georgia in 1898.

Take the American College of Surgeons UCSF Surgery National Surgeon Well-being survey today and make your voice heard! Click here: ucsf.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_5h…

Excellent article by RanaAwdishMD and colleagues about “never words” — phrases we shouldn’t say to patients with serious illness. Here are a few of my favorites:

You need to change your mindset.

Change is necessary.

"Our system ignores, silences and undermines" those who stand up to report injustices in the health care environment. Physician Just Equity Pringl Miller MD FACS

This is one of the more interesting articles I have read this year: the former dean of Harvard Medical School had a start-up in the late 1980s based on using GLP1s to treat diabetes and weight loss, but Pfizer stopped funding it despite promising early results. Two lessons:

Fraud & #misconduct in the scientific community: "It is embarrassing for institutions when one of their employees commits misconduct, so they’d rather impose a mild penalty & not keep digging. There’s little incentive for anyone to get to the bottom of misconduct." Kelsey Piper

“And despite it all, they try again.”

On this #WomensEqualityDay, we commemorate the certification of the 19th Amendment to the Constitution, granting women the right to vote 104 years ago. We have come so far but our fight isn't over — we won’t go back!

Our democracy includes our voices because of women who struggled hard & long to win the right to vote. On #WomensEqualityDay we honor them. We must ensure equality for women & girls – it makes our country stronger.

Potential new oral pain medication by Vertex Pharmaceuticals (mechanism: blocks sodium channels) being reviewed by FDA FDA Drug Information Regional Anesthesia & Pain Medicine

🎉 Congratulations to Dr. Lisa Knowlton on receiving up to $22.3 million dollars from ARPA-H to improve intraoperative anatomy visualization and critical structure identification! Lisa Knowlton Stanford Surgery surgery.stanford.edu/news2/Knowlton…

#TermLimits for clinical leadership positions would benefit the VA Health Care System!➡️Enhanced equity & inclusion, #Quality improvement, organizational ethics shorturl.at/L7zTd VHA Under Secretary Dr. Shereef M. Elnahal Veterans Health Federal News Network Association of VA Surgeons (AVAS) Edith Tzeng

Interesting discussion about 'The Sky Was Falling' - medical memoir by pediatric surgeon Cornelia Griggs Simon & Schuster (Thanks for organizing Stepheny Berry, MD, FACS Fellowship of the Book) Stephanie Bonne

Doctors please remember For you it's just another appointment. Just another rounds visit. But for patients those 10 minutes are the most important visit of their day. Sometimes of their lives.