Elliot J. Scott, MD, FACS
@ElliotJScottMD
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General surgeon, endocrine surgeon, recovered litigator. Prior @mountsinaiNYC @VMFhealth @LSUHealthNO @tulanelaw @hkulaw @univofthesouth @esacadiana
New Orleans
Joined December 2014
“[F]reedom involves attention, and awareness, and discipline, and effort, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them, over and over, in myriad petty little unsexy ways, every day. That is real freedom”
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RT @TheAAES: International Parathyroid Awareness Day! This day commemorates Sir Richard Owen's birth in 1804. He is renowned for his discov….
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“4 goals of surgery (live longer, feel better, prevent a disability, and make a diagnosis)”.
"Good decision-making does not entail hiding a professional opinion; it requires engaging in genuine deliberation with a patient." Read this Viewpoint about the complexities of surgical decision-making.
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RT @shinboson: life exists only in the gradient between hot and cold, light and dark, something and nothing.
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I truly cannot comprehend how @AlaskaAir could think anyone would take a $40 (!) travel credit (!!) to change a flight or a different / non-direct flight or different day. Much less after multiple emails and texts. Genuinely bewildered by it.
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The great @gthyroid57 describes the characteristic movement of the parathyroid gland during dissection of the adjacent tissue as a motion “likened to a rowboat riding a wave on windswept water.” Quite lovely!.
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RT @Rainmaker1973: Thai Police Hospital doctors performing an outdoor surgery in Bangkok when their operation was interrupted by the earthq��.
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interesting!.
There are emerging roles for caffeine in the perioperative setting, and anesthesiologists should be familiar with the ways that caffeine may be able to improve postoperative recovery for adults. Read the new Clinical Focus Review in @_Anesthesiology:
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RT @fakehistoryhunt: @HafsaahYousaf Versailles had bathrooms. Medieval people brushed their teeth, had perfume, deodorants and wiped their….
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RT @Rick_Pescatore: I'm a 38 year old ER doctor sitting at my kitchen table after a long day at work. I saw 50 patients today (seriously!)….
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RT @The_Japan_News: 744 Japanese Letters on U.S. Aid After 1923 Quake Found;President Calvin Coolidge Quickly Organized Relief https://t.co….
japannews.yomiuri.co.jp
Over 700 letters from Japanese students expressing appreciation for U.S. assistance for the 1923 Great Kanto Earthquake are found to have been kept in the United States. A team of researchers from...
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RT @DrDimitrios: Every source of joy is also a source of pain. The job you sought is also stressing you out. The house you bought needs c….
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RT @georgetolisjr: For the medical system in the US to have an iota of hope to change, PCPs have to be empowered and paid much better than….
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RT @TheAAES: Untreated Graves' disease can affect the heart causing rapid heart rate and contribute to thinning of the bones or problems w….
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RT @ajlamesa: All these stupid arguments about coverage that insurers force onto patients and providers aren't "free." When a patient and a….
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It is beyond my area of expertise to comment on the reform proposals themselves, but I learned a lot from the richly-footnoted description of medicaid's astonishing growth and the efforts states and hospitals have made to game the system.
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