Good point. Pros and cons to both approaches, but nice to have both options in the armamentarium. Surgeon preference/experience matters too. University of Missouri Surgery Rushabh Dev Micah Ancheta, any thoughts?

S. Arshia Arshad, MD, MS Conversion to open often results in an open subtotal. I’m old enough that we did a decent number of open choles in training, but I rarely convert now, because of the popularity of the subtotal. Converting purely to prevent leaving a small remnant is where you get in trouble.

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Food security and its impact on PROMs in preop Bariatric surgery pts!!! Link ➡️➡️➡️ rdcu.be/eFXYv ⬅️⬅️⬅️——— Edward Lin Nicole Petcka Danny Mou, MD MPH

Thanks to all of you good-looking and well-adjusted abstract submitters for getting us over 1,700 abstracts! We love you so we will keep the submission site open over the weekend. Keep going!

As we are a month or so into the new fellows starting to learn colonoscopy, I would like to reshare this Tweetorial on difficult colonoscopy. May our failures become our teachers, and our successes never blind us with overconfidence.

Emergency General Surgery (EGS) team Emory Surgery lead by chief resident Dr. Williams! We even had a boot day to match the Chief! Emory School of Medicine Emory Healthcare

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In 1992 Peter Ratcliffe received this rejection letter from Nature. His findings were not "a sufficient advance in our understanding". 27 years later he won the Nobel Prize for the same discovery. Don't lose faith in the things you believe in.

Long-term data show subtotal cholecystectomy and open conversion both carry tradeoffs, but subtotal techniques reduce bile duct injury without compromising overall survival. journals.lww.com/annalsofsurger…

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A good reminder for the surgery residents - attempts to adapt language to our perception of low medical literacy can have unintended consequences for the otherwise literary patient. This is an elegant little piece about a sometimes very elegant little operation.

The dying specialty of “General Surgery”, as noted by authors from each and every decade over the last 100 years.

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Compensation Red Flags 1. RVU thresholds that don’t match reality If the required RVUs are above MGMA 75th percentile for your specialty, the job may be impossible to hit. Many hospitals quietly bury unrealistic production expectations. 2. “Guaranteed salary” that actually

Let me get this straight… Unplanned need for oxygen was the only pulmonary complication with a difference & surgical approach was not significant on multivariate analysis, yet this is the JAMA Surgery conclusion…🤦🏼‍♂️

Elliot Servais, MD, FACS JAMA Surgery This is pretty funny from a urology perspective. It's like general and cardiothoracic surgery are going through the same debates we went through 20 years ago. Déjà vu all over again. Just carry on.

In his latest message, SAGES President Dr. Brent Matthews talks about the rise of robotic surgery and SAGES' responsibility in thoughtfully guiding the transition. sages.org/a-message-from…

More than 100 years ago, William Osler (the 'Father of Medicine') warned us about the danger of having a busy and successful practice. Though the term 'burnout' was unknown at the time, essentially this is what he was talking about. A short 🧵 (1/ )