On the Spot

This month we feature the annual On the Spot: The Art of Herniology. The scope of this edition’s hernia ...

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

In this issue, I present current debates in colorectal surgery, including parastomal hernia prevention with mesh, ...

MAY 9, 2023

Welcome to the 2023 On the Spot: The Art of Herniology. There is so much to cover in hernia right now! Many ...

MARCH 31, 2023

This month’s On the Spot topic is endoscopy, just in time for the annual Society of American Gastrointestinal ...

MARCH 10, 2023

In this issue, I am tackling a familiar topic for the On the Spot column: surgical endoscopy. This time, I have ...

MARCH 16, 2022

This year’s debates commence with two diametrically opposed views on whether or not laparoscopy can be safely ...

JUNE 29, 2020

This month’s On the Spot is the annual exit interview with outgoing American Society for Metabolic and ...

MARCH 30, 2020

For this year’s “The Art of Herniology,” I have created a mix of topics within the general focus ...

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

Welcome to Part 2 of On the Spot: Practice Patterns. While the original column highlighted issues in private versus ...

DECEMBER 12, 2019

This is Part 1 of a two-part series. Part 2 will appear in the December issue.

DECEMBER 4, 2019

As we’ve done since 2010, Steven D. Wexner, MD, PhD, and I collaborated on the annual Dueling Debates in ...

MAY 15, 2019

Is advanced biliary endoscopy a separate practice from advanced luminal endoscopy? Should advanced endoscopy ...

MAY 3, 2019