Really excited to see our paper in British Journal of Anaesthesia reporting critical care use after major GI + liver surgery from the STARSurg DISCOVER project! Collaborative and student-driven from conception -> data collection -> writing at the STARSurg #hackday.

Nick Ferrari: "I don't know how you're going to get out of this one but it's going to be fun" It's quite rare to see Michael Gove realise mid-lie how ridiculous he sounds and backtrack but here it is x.com/BenTheTim/stat…

"Before talking: Please connect the tongue to the brain."... and if possible to the heart, that might help.

An exceptionally competitive year for STARSurg committee applications (not sure I'd have got in 😂). Huge congrats to the new committee Aya Riad Rohan Gujjuri Michal Kawka @Mr_Shiraz_Shafi @Viktorija__K Daoud Chaudhry! You're in some good company 😉 (past and present!)

Trainers: Your trainees need you like never before - make every opportunity count. The current position and suggestions for how to get the best out of each training encounter outlined in the video: youtu.be/GHGWNLcNuG0 #NoTrainingTodayNoSurgeonsTomorrow #GiveGreatFeedback

Logbook numbers down >50% in all surgical specialties in all regions of the UK since April. All cases should be training cases, no matter where they happen #NoTrainingTodayNoSurgeonsTomorrow #TrainingEmergency

“Details and Complications” is what define great surgeons. Great surgeons pay attention to details to prevent complications. And when complications occur they don’t ignore them, they pay attention to details to make the complications better.

A must read

CRP was discovered when precipitation was observed in the plasma of patients with Pneumococcal PNA which decreased as patients recovered. They later uncovered that some protein had reacted with the C-polysaccharide of Pneumococcus and christened it C Reactive Protein. (5/12)

It's been 10 years since I got my PhD. So I few scattered reflections on things I've come to realise over the years, which I hope might be useful to others starting out...

Share a pearl of surgical wisdom that you frequently pass on to younger surgeons and trainees.

This is a letter Feynman wrote to a former student who wrote congratulating him for the Nobel. I’ve posted it before but I really find it worth it to read especially as a student or early stage research person.

Absolutely ❤️ this low-cost simulation model! Such a simple idea 😊 And it is open access too! A Paper-Based Simulation Model for Teaching Inguinal Hernia Anatomy | SpringerLink link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Thank you to Jackie Baillie who lodged a motion in Scottish Parliament welcoming a new London Economics, LE report which shows cancer research in Glasgow is worth more than half a billion pounds to the UK economy, bringing benefits to patients & boosting the region's life sciences ecosystem 🔬

Implementation of RAS for L-sided CRC: ⬆️ MIS rates,⬇️ post-op stress response & improved periop outcomes Abi Ingham’s research ➕Chia Yew Kong➕NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde RAS teams Results likely seen across 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 due to Scottish Government NHS National Services Scotland National RAS Framework link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Really interesting paper in Nature Immunology today (Broquet et al.) They found that people who recover from sepsis have a reduced cancer risk in the years that follow (vs. matched people with non-septic infections): This was recapitulated in a controlled setting in mice - mice

SOuRCe Sydney Local Health District Annals of Surgery Institute of Academic Surgery University of Sydney Sydney Research JGoligher Colorectal The Christie NHS Mayo Clinic University of Otago Peter Mac Cancer Centre Karolinska Institutet Cherry Koh Paul Sutton Eric J. Dozois @jonas_funder Julio Garcia Aguilar Richard Garfinkle, MD MSc PhD  Tamara Glyn Chia Yew Kong Helle Ø Kristensen Songphol Malakorn Emmanouil Pappou Martha Quinn Aaron Quyn Jim Tiernan BI BOB Tata Memorial Hospital Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center Chulalongkorn U.

Ecstatic and proud to share the NICHE-2 results, now published in NEJM. Out of 111 pts, 95% had an MPR , and 68% a pCR after only 4 weeks of #neoadjuvant #immunotherapy. Grateful to the pts and colleagues who made this possible. John Haanen nej.md/3Ku4X0H

And doctors, please remember to see/hear/speak to the caregiver, as well. The cancer patient faces the possibility of pain, disability, death. The caregiver faces the possibility of going through life with only half their heart. They both need you. ❤️