GENERAL SURGERY

Unconscious Bias

May 5, 2022 by in GENERAL SURGERY Comments Off on Unconscious Bias

Unconscious Bias Samir K. Gadepalli Erin E. Perrone Erika Adams Newman Unconscious and implicit biases are the immediate and rapid thoughts carried beneath conscious awareness. Such thoughts form stereotypes and…

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Underrepresented Minorities in Surgery

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Underrepresented Minorities in Surgery Erika Adams Newman David J. Brown CATALYSTS FOR DIVERSITY Medical school enrollment of ethnic minority groups continues to decline, and underrepresented minorities (URMs: African American, Mexican…

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Women in Surgery

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Women in Surgery Dawn Coleman Dana A. Telem For the past 15 years, near-equal complements of men and women have entered American medical schools. Despite this, considerable gender-based inequities persist…

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Building a Creative Culture

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Building a Creative Culture Michael W. Mulholland CREATIVITY Creativity is the key to success. Contemporary American surgery is uniquely expensive, highly scrutinized, and challenged by societal and economic expectations. In…

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25. General Surgery

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Wounds that have no gap separating the boundaries (e.g., clean surgical wounds) will undergo “primary healing,” from the apposed edges of the tissue. Wounds that have a large gap (e.g.,…

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1. Preventive Medicine

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“Treatment without prevention is simply unsustainable.” —Bill Gates 1.1 Types of Prevention 1.2 General Screening Recommendations in Adults Start screening at the following age Patient group Screen for Testing modality…

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Chapter 9 Posterior Pelvis

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9.1 Significance and Function of the Pelvic Region The pelvis is the kinetic and kinematic center of the musculoskeletal system. It is the center of the functional unit of the…

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Chapter 14 Head and Jaw

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14.1 Introduction Of all the structures in the head region, physical therapists are best able to treat the jaw (temporomandibular joint or TMJ) and the atlanto-occipital joint, which have already…

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