Semper Fidelis, Again
When he was 23 years old, he’d wanted to die. It was 2005. He was a Marine, a Corporal, and was...
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Author: Bruce Davis
Do Video Recordings Help or Hurt Doctors?
A recent event at the trauma center where I work raised some serious questions regarding the use...
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Recertification Blues: A Useless Exam
I recently took the American Board of Surgery MOC exam. This will make the third time in my career...
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Surgery: Things Left Behind
I got the call from the radiologist at midday, just as I was about to start my third case in the...
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EMR Alerts: Crying Wolf
Anyone who has spent time on the Internet has seen those annoying pop-up ads that contaminate...
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Too Old to Operate?
He was 94 years old and was in my office because his gallstones were becoming a problem. They had...
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It Ain’t What You Don’t Know…
A while back, I was on call on a Saturday night when we got a notification of an incoming trauma,...
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High Expectations & Physician Suicide
A friend on Facebook recently forwarded a news article and a link to a physician blog about the...
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Just Culture? Just Kidding.
The big health system that owns the hospital where I do much of my elective scheduled surgery has...
Read MoreOperating on One of Our Own
Even though Phoenix is a big city (sixth largest in the U.S.) the surgical community is a relatively small. We all know most of the other general surgeons in the Valley, if not personally, then by reputation or at one degree of...
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Reconnecting With Those Who Inspired You
I got an e-mail recently from a Dr. Tim Race, MD, FACS. I didn’t remember knowing a Dr. Race and...
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Trauma Surgeons: Lifeguards at the Shallow End?
There was a time, during my training and early in my career when the trauma surgeon was the...
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Age and the Trauma Surgeon
I’m on day 5 of an 8-day run of Port-and-Starboard trauma call (Navy talk for every other night)...
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Hello Darkness My Old Friend
My friend Nick, the ER doctor, called me the other day to tell me that one of my patients had died...
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Dancing in the OR
I was not having a good morning. I had just come off Trauma call—a difficult 24hr shift that was...
Read MoreSphincter Blues
“One of life’s underappreciated pleasures is the filling and emptying of one’s hollow viscus.” —attributed to Samuel Johnson, but maybe not. Admit it, we all love filling our tummies, that much is obvious. But isn’t a good bowel...
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A Question About Today’s Standard of Care
To all of my medical friends and colleagues, especially to PA’s, NP’s, and Nurses, I need some...
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Anyone Can Become Angry, That’s Easy
Anyone can become angry—that is easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree,...
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