News
The Right Choice? A New Chapter
We must not forget how significant our relationships with our patients can be.
News
Communication and consent
Good communication skills including listening to the patient and the patient’s reasoning are essential in obtaining informed consent.
Opinion
The Right Choice? Modifiable risk factors and surgical decision making
Surgeons allow significant latitude for patients to make individual decisions about assuming greater or lesser risks.
Opinion
The right choice? Surgery “offered” or “recommended”?
We must accept that patients can refuse even the most strongly recommended treatments.
Article
The right choice? Surgeons, confidence, and humility
It started as an offhand comment. The patient had been on the medicine service for over a week before developing acute appendicitis with an...
News
The Right Choice? Surgeons, confidence, and humility
Most successful surgeons express a level of confidence in their abilities which often exceeds that of many other physicians. Such observations...
