Reforming Healthcare: Is Medicare Salvageable?

Dr. Henry Buchwald joins Dr. James Elsey to discuss reasonable reforms to Medicare.

MAY 15, 2025

Gifting

When I was still in clinical practice, I had many farmers as patients. There is, however, one I will always ...

DECEMBER 17, 2024

The Prolonged Follow-up Fallacy of RCTs

I recently listened to a Zoom presentation displaying or referring to a vast volume of statistically significantly ...

AUGUST 20, 2024

Decisions Forced on Us by COVID-19

Should a vulnerable surgeon sit this one out? The severity of COVID disease, hospital and ICU admissions, and death ...

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Words, Words, Words

Shakespeare used words for their explicit and multiple meanings, knowing that specific connotations could determine ...

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Vaccination: Penicillin for Pandemics

In many a fantasy, a time traveler goes to the past, makes an adjustment and alters the present. In many a fantasy, ...

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Inflammation Everywhere

When I started as a practitioner, I understood inflammation to mean an acute response to trauma (e.g., ...

AUGUST 26, 2021

Ants to Robotics: 10 Tools of Surgery

From the earliest times, prehistoric humans have incurred wounds from violence or accident, and the human instinct ...

MAY 31, 2021

Traumatic Brain Injury

It is estimated that each year there are 2.8 million TBIs in the United States and 69 million worldwide, at a ...

APRIL 9, 2021

What Will Follow the Virtual World of COVID-19 For Medical Practitioners?

Before COVID-19, Zoom and similar devices, telephone landlines, iPhones, the U.S. Postal Service, and FedEx were ...

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

Metabolic Surgery In the Era of COVID-19

When the COVID-19 pandemic started to accelerate and spread, American health care responded by consolidating and ...

JANUARY 6, 2021

The Virtual ACS Congress 2020 And Beyond

The American College of Surgeons has chosen as its theme for the 2020 Clinical Congress: The Joys of Learning, ...

OCTOBER 13, 2020