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🌐Lavita is set to revolutionize health data access for tens of millions of users through native integration with leading EHR providers such as MyChart. Introducing the #LavitaPlatform: a pioneering Web3 platform reshaping how we manage, share, and leverage health data,

I burnt out on the burnout discussion a while ago, but great example of how a little scale framing can sensationalize sensible data. "Check the axis before you wreck your perception." - Ice Cube

An honor to work on this @JournalofGME perspective with @jbcarmody. We discuss the ongoing inflation of residency application research items👇 and posit that capping this metric will refocus #MedicalStudents efforts toward more impactful experiences #meded https://t.co/IJev05Q9Ts

Such a surreal feeling to see our teams’ work over the past 2 years in beautiful illustrations! Check it out! 💜🫀 @karamlou @TurekPedHearts @JennaRomanoMD

🔍We need to zoom in on the 20,000+ open choles happening on Medicare patients every year (42% reportedly elective‼️). How many can/should be safely completed MIS? Can robot expedite the time it takes to get there? Technology should be embraced if it improves patient outcomes.

This paper... won't change practice of surgeons who've adopted robot platform and completed 100s-1000s of robot choles w/ safety & rare conversion to open🙉 @AnkitPatelMD ...can be ignored by surgeons happily doing lap choles w/ safety & rare conversion to open🙈@EricKnauerMD

Before we start arguing about 4 out of 1000 vs. 2 out of 1000 from retrospective analysis of administrative claims data, let's zoom out and take a W on the fact that more and more patients are experiencing the benefits of minimally invasive surgery.

Robot advocates and robot haters will both use this data to support respective narratives. But title could just as easily have been "Safety of Minimally Invasive Cholecystectomy: A Decade of Progress Over Open Technique."

⏳Over the ten years ⌛️, use of Open approach decreased by 7.4% to 17% of all chole cases in 2019. Lap up 2.4%, robot up 5%. Would same shift from open to MIS approach happened anyways in a world without the robot? @sdavis81 Interrupted Time Series analysis could help answer.

Supplemental content highlights: ‼️significantly lower rate of BDI in both robot & lap approach to chole compared to open approach (3.8%). 📉Decrease in rate of BDI over time for all approaches, yet open chole w 30% complications overall + BDI rate still 2.9% after adjustment 👀

Interesting new research in @JAMASurgery titled "Comparative Safety of Robotic-Assisted vs Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy" - authors report higher rate of serious BDI in robot vs lap chole (0.4% vs 0.2%, after adjusting for possible group differences). A look beyond the abstract...

Kids will never do homework again.

In honor of the new residency application cycle, I asked chatGPT to write a CT abdomen pelvis report using Gen Z lingo

Be sure to register for the webinar Competency in Safe Cholecystectomy: Pre, Intra, and Post-Operative Strategies https://t.co/BD79TE5YR2 @SAGES_Updates @EzraTeitelbaum @rbarbosa91 @VNikolian Maybe I will wear my cape!!

Successful Robotic Surgery Week for @UCincySurg residents! Thanks to @IntuitiveSurg for bringing their DaVinci training robots🤖. Residents honed skills on KindHeart real-tissue models. ✅inguinal hernias ✅ventral hernias ✅chole ✅sleeve gastrectomy ✅right colectomy ✅LAR

Dear house of medicine, Happy (academic) new year. Here’s your annual paycut. This one will bring you to a total 23% decrease since that whole “pandemic” thing. Love, The US Government PS: We have shortage of healthcare workers and deep health access issues in this country.

Things that patients have gifted me at postop visits so far in my first year in practice...a handmade birdhouse, a crocheted throw blanket (+ one for my dog), a box of hostas. Love it. Please share any memorable/unique gifts from patients.

.@UcincyMedicine is excited to announce the appointment of Dr @dgerber6 as the new chair of the Department of Surgery beginning this fall. https://t.co/OKCtOPaSIp

Subxiphoid hernias from prior sternotomy are common and can be deceptively challenging to treat. Preperitoneal approaches allow for broad mesh coverage that can reduce recurrence rates. Full video with narration: https://t.co/CgSw4gXtUQ #HerniaGeeks #OHSUHernia