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Author: Bruce Davis

Operating 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 almost deleted it. I’m all over Social Media these days and have gotten some increased notice because of some columns I’ve written...

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Contracts

The hospital where I do much of my elective surgery recently terminated the contract it had with a large Hospitalist group and announced plans to hire Hospitalists directly as hospital employees. A less publicized part of that...

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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 finally behind me. I had finished a long week of rounding on the Trauma Service and had turned the patients over to Sid, who would...

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Sphincter 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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Judgments

About five in the afternoon on a weekday trauma shift we got a call from Native Air, a helicopter...

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