This weekend I’m reading this book on baseball strategy (yes I’m nuts) and I came across an idea I haven’t heard before. Well, it’s more a way of framing an old idea in a way that gives it some punch. The author, Andy Baylock Uncon Huskies baseball coach for 39 years, was talking about what it … [Read more...]

Do you need to learn Surgery? Good thing the same principles apply no matter what you have to learn. I’ve got a few doozies for you this month. Some simple tactics to get that stuff into and out of your brain and you’re gonna love it. A few things you’ll get from this excellent issue of PAES - … [Read more...]

Loads of new people come through the OR.  Surgical Tech studentsNew Surgical TechsPA studentsNew PAsNursing studentsNew NursesResidents I have the pleasure of working with and teaching them all. You know what’s funny. I teach all of them the exact same thing on day one in the OR. Then the … [Read more...]

A few days ago I was talking with a friend of mine. He's an excellent spine surgeon, and we had done an anterior cervical discectomy and fusion (ACDF) a few weeks before. I was asking how the patient was doing. It turned out he did great and wound up going home that same day.  This is rare. … [Read more...]

What do you do when you're sweeping the floor in the living room and without warning a big chunk of dirt gets up and starts racing across the floor!!??? I wasn't home at the time, so I guess we'll never know. One of my son's fiddler crabs escaped her cage and made her way out of his room, down … [Read more...]