At least once a week, when I get to the part in my informed consent discussion where I tell a person that they are at a teaching institution, someone gets a very concerned look in their eye and says something like, “But you’re the one holding the knife and actually doing my surgery? I don’t […]
Ethics of Authorship
Writing manuscripts is an essential component of any academic surgery career – “publish or perish” is a rule we all live by. While most of us physician-scientists spent years in science lectures and labs, very few of us have formal training in writing, and probably even less of us, formal training in negotiating the complex […]