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At a given instant everything the surgeon knows suddenly becomes important to the solution of the problem. You can't do it an hour later, or tomorrow. Nor can you go to the library and look it up - John W Kirlin

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I am a surgeon: Therefore I think


If you can’t do this drunk, you shouldn’t be doing it at all.” The eminent professor was speaking to a friend of mine about heart surgery. He was not advocating Operating Under the Influence, nor am I.

The point is that the technical component of surgery--the cutting, the sewing, the rearranging--is pretty easy. It is true that in the OR, as on the golf course, some are more gifted than others, some more experienced. But almost anyone can get through an operation or a round of golf, given training and equipment necessary to the act.

In more than ten years as surgical faculty, I worked with only one resident whom I considered technically hopeless, and he proved me…

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 I am a surgeon: Therefore I think

Realization and validation of our ideas require technical capacity, and the greatest satisfaction results from a solution properly conceived and executed. There is no feeling like it: doing without thinking and its converse are equally sterile.

Inside Surgery

Authored by L. “Skip” Marcucci, MD, a board-certified general surgeon, trauma surgeon, and critical care physician. Selected as one of the 10 best surgery sites on the web by the Wall Street Journal.

Outpatient Surgery

Outpatient Surgery Magazine serves as a meetingplace and a marketplace for decisionmakers in facilities where ambulatory surgery is done. The magazine facilitates the exchange of ideas, advice, experiences and information between surgical facility management team members.

School of Surgery

Audio and video podcasts aimed at medical students and doctors in training on a growing range of topics across surgery.

Surgical-Tutor

This site contains educational material aimed at those preparing for undergraduate and postgraduate surgical examinations. It includes clinical tutorials, a journal club, multiple choice questions, revision notes, slide library, discussion group and more.

Vesalius

The Internet Resource for Surgical Education. Our mission at Vesalius is to carry the pioneering tradition established by Vesalius and Leonardo into the 21st century, by creating a state-of-the-art, Internet-based resource for surgical education.

Better Health

Dr. Val Jones has experience in plastic and pediatric surgery and runs this blog with a variety of medical contributors. Posts are contributed from across the nation and include everything from common problems to mysterious. You can also get a ton of health related information - Surgical Technician Schools.

DoctorsLounge

DoctorsLounge is one of the most popular online medical resources for physicians, students and allied clinical professionals. It provides clinical information about surgery through multimedia tutorials and other study aids.

MDLinx

MDLinx Surgery is your ultimate resource for the latest General Surgery and subspecialty surgery news articles published in over 2,000 peer-reviewed medical journals and popular press. Our diligent team of medical editor’s rank sort and summarize Surgery news articles with topics ranging from: Cardiac Surgery, Critical Care, Vascular, Thoracic, Peds Surgery, Neurosurgery and much more.

MedPage Today

Surgery Information Center from MedPage Today is the only service for physicians that provides a clinical perspective on the breaking medical news that their patients are reading.

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