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Round 2 about to start. More faculty...more cases...all things IBD!

Look who stopped by #AspenIdeasHealth! Louie, Elmo’s dad, joined Ashish K. Jha, MD, MPH for a chat, father to father, about helping kids understand how vaccines will help us have sunnier days ahead. Visit sesamestreet.org/caring for important resources for families from Sesame Workshop!

Where do folks stand on optimizing or even “prehab”? The data seems to getting increasingly noisy with many of the physical therapy-oriented interventions showing no benefit but under-investigation of focused comorbidity targeted interventions.

Sage advice from Dan Geynisman at Fox Chase (UofC Grad), worth a read. Previous essay on email addiction also good: ascopubs.org/doi/full/10.12… End of the Beginning—Lessons From the First 10 Years as an Oncologist ascopubs.org/doi/full/10.12… Alexander Kutikov MD @dytcmd.bsky.social Walter Stadler

No need to be a Urologist to appreciate these pearls for us new to being the staff surgeon. Appreciate the read!

When you’re torn between retweeting and not highlighting something that is woefully embarrassing to our profession largest voice….whelp, guess retweeting win. AMA , please rescue thyself

Impact Factor went way up for seemingly every journal this year. Pandemic effect? I wonder what was the average increase?

Does higher quality surgical care cost more? Can you shop for an operation like you can a car? Thank you Andrew Esposito Marcelo Cerullo, MD MPH Nathan Coppersmith Ira Leeds Anne Mongiu Do You Get What You Pay For? The Relationship of Price and Quality in ... sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Fun work, admirably led by our fearless value transparency leader Dr. Pantel. Hospitals still have work to do on revealing prices...then again, arbitrary price setting compared to quality makes it a poor signal for value

SSAT American Hernia Society ASCRS_1 Connie Shao | 邵爱华 Ira Leeds Jeffrey Ponsky GlobalCastMD

bit.ly/3LrnLPK Postdischarge VTE in a British national cohort from Annals of Surgery Lest we forget just how rare (but serious) these are: 0.63% in all colon surgery. There has to be a better way than hopes/prayers/Lovenox. Sandra DiBrito Stefan Holubar MD MS Elliott R Haut, MD, PhD

Don't miss this awesome event! All are welcome! #ASCRS23

Psychosocial frailty is as important as comorbidities and physical frailty in affecting post-operative outcomes. We need to identify and optimize pre-operative Psychosocial frailty! Ira Leeds Julia Berian ASCRS_1 Isacco Montroni Pasithorn Suwanabol Josh Wolf Steven D Wexner MD, PhD #ASCRS23

Donating to the future of colorectal feels even better when you forgot socks… #ascrs2023 ASCRS_1 Haddon Pantel

This one stirs inner warm fuzzies. Excited to share work capping off 🦠that highlights the power of Yale School of Medicine collab and what we can provide through veteran-led research (and likely ⬇️ surgery delays). Thankful Yale Surgery Annals of Surgery for the opp! tinyurl.com/yc4xbknj

Great session on #ERAS moderated by Ira Leeds Joe Carmichael MD. Daniel I-Hsin Chu | 朱以信 outlined health literacy as mediator between socioecological factors and surgical outcomes, Laila Rashidi discussed same-day colectomy and Karen Zaghiyan, M.D. highlighted essential components of ERAS #ASCRS24

Love the recent Commentary for our article on costs of failure to rescue. For everyone, are you John Donne or James Hetfield? Kurt Schultz and I split the difference jogs.org/article/S1091-… Courtney Devin Emory Surgery