By Brigid Duffy
On a blustery December afternoon at New York City’s Waldorf Astoria, a conference room packed with 200 surgeons from around the United States were put to the test: “A post–Whipple procedure patient presents an incarcerated hernia. Do you reduce the hernia or move to the operating room immediately?” The surgeons swiftly pulled out their phones, woke up their laptops and voted electronically. Within seconds, the verdict appeared on the screen behind