The feeling you get when you submit an abstract a full *week* before the deadline instead of at 11:55 pm on the day of.

Watch out for aberrant anatomy. Maybe Moynihan’s hump. #safechole Robert Drummond Ron Barbosa MD FACS Vahagn C. Nikolian, MD Caroline Park MD, MPH Michael J. Pucci Maggie Bosley, MD Ian S Soriano 🇵🇭 Shiva Jayaraman SAGES is in Long Beach in 2025! MISIRG Cirbosque #SoMe4Surgery Ron Hekier Emory Surgery

There are certain cases that are always painful, and at the end you tell yourself you’re going to stop doing them one day. Then after about 48 hr, the pain has passed enough that you’re ready again for the next one. Then this same cycle repeats over and over. 🤔

This is probably a good day to remind people that trying to do M&M conference on an actual (and recent) case, using what is very clearly PHI that has been leaked to the internet, is NOT a good idea. Recall the wisdom of Cube, I et al (1992);

Bedside intercostal nerve block has typically required continuous infusion, which is cumbersome because it requires a pump and a considerable amount of logistics. What about bedside use of cryoablation? Villalta et al did a pilot study: ➡️bit.ly/4cSDTE7ha