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Physicians make ethical decisions in every conversation they have with a patient, and this is the heart of microethics, says Robert D. Truog, MD, who will deliver this year’s John J. Conley Ethics and Philosophy Lecture.
Drawing from a lifelong interest in mathematics databases and prognostic outcome tools, Sir Murray F. Brennan, GNZM, MD, FACS, will assert there is a better way than the status quo in the Commission on Cancer Oncology Lecture, Cancer Care: Medicine Meet Math.
In The Opioid Problem: What a Surgeon Needs to Know, Kavita Babu, MD, and other panelists discuss the opioid addiction crisis in the U.S., mitigation strategies for outpatient prescribing, and public health approaches to the solution.
The ACS Task Force on Racial Issues was created to identify areas within the field of surgery and the College that need to improve to create substantive, lasting changes.
As one of the panelists for Leadership, Workforce, Communication during COVID-19 Pandemic: Lessons Learned, George Agriantonis, MD, FACS, describes how the largest municipal hospital system in the U.S. confronted the COVID-19 surge.
The Owen H. Wangensteen Scientific Forum Committee dedicated the abstract supplement to Timothy J. Eberlein, MD, FACS, at this year’s Clinical Congress, and 24 Excellence in Research Awards were distributed.
With the theme “Enterprise-wide Military Surgical Care,” the 5th Annual Excelsior Surgical Society meeting will include six hours of progamming October 8–9.
James Fleshman, MD, FACS, FASCRS, outlines what it takes to become a true high-reliability organization in the 2020 Herand Abcarian Lecture.
Nancy L. Ascher, MD, PhD, FACS, identified two specific challenges for the transplantation community—donor shortage and unethical practices—in the Charles G. Drake History of Surgery Lecture.
Gregory J. Jurkovich, MD, FACS, dissects the meaning behind surgeons saying, “I’m not comfortable with this,” and the new implications COVID-19 brings to the phrase in the Scudder Oration on Trauma.
With recent advances in breast cancer care, there is a need to help patients better understand their treatment decisions and survival benefits from a complex menu of choices. The ACS Division of Education has responded with Your Breast Cancer Surgery.
A panel of orthopaedic surgeons including a pioneer in minimally invasive joint replacement surgery, Richard A. Berger, MD, discusses a shift in joint replacement recovery for the surgical team and patients in the session Ambulatory Surgery: Transforming Inpatient Care to Outpatient Care across the Continuum.
An additional 44 sessions offering AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™ will launch throughout the day October 7, wrapping up the virtual Clinical Congress 2020.
Developed by the ACS Division of Education, SESAP 17 is a premier educational resource for practicing surgeons consiting of 650 newly constructed, multiple-choice, case-based questions.
A variety of studies show long-term smoking cessation rates are higher in patients who quit in anticipation of an operation, as discussed in the session When and How to Quit Cigarettes, Vaping, and Marijuana Use Prior to Surgery.