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JANUARY 13, 2017

Make Surgery Great Again

By David V. Cossman, MD

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A man in the distance with a gathering crowd attracted my attention. I thought he was wearing a red baseball cap—bill backward—but when I got closer he was in surgical greens, and his red operating room cap was embroidered with the words “Make Surgery Great Again.”

“When I’m elected, the 80-hour workweek for residents is history. Ignorance is more dangerous than fatigue. I like the ‘timeout’—it stays. If interns and