Authors: D. Matthew Sherrer, MD, MBA, FASA, FAACD; et al ASA Monitor March 2023, Vol. 87, 1–8. Don’t harm me. Heal me. Hear me. For decades, health care organizations have held this high-reliability adage as the aspirational ideal for patient expectation. By reaching near Six-Sigma levels of safety, modern anesthesiologists have delivered on the first two […]
Read MoreAuthor: Avery Hurt Practical Pain Management Feb 2023 Vol 23 Issue 1 Chronic pelvic pain can be a challenge to treat for many reasons, not least because it manifests in myriad ways, making it difficult even to nail down a definition of the term. The pathology behind chronic pelvic pain (CPP) is equally complex. Even […]
Read MoreASA Monitor March 2023, Vol. 87, 13. Trends Transplanted hair follicles could help repair scar tissue In a study funded by the Medical Research Council and Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, skin scars began to behave more like uninjured skin when treated with hair follicle transplants. The scarred skin harbored new cells and blood vessels, […]
Read MoreAuthor: Ronald G. Pearl, MD, PhD, FASA ASA Monitor March 2023, Vol. 87, 15–17. “Why should an anesthesiology department support the medical arts and humanities?” During my 22 years as chair of the Stanford Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, I was never asked this question, since the value of supporting these activities was obvious […]
Read MoreAuthor: Audrey Shafer, MD ASA Monitor March 2023, Vol. 87, 14–15. Maybe it was the ducks. Escorted by a man in a red, black, and gold braid suit, plump mallards waddled from the elevator to the lobby fountain at The Peabody in Memphis, Tennessee. I had just returned from a walk to see the site of […]
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