Pangs of jealousy mixed with joy filled my gut as I witnessed my students create a Stamm tube gastrostomy and mature a colostomy in our simulation laboratory. I thought back to my younger self, 16 years ago, when I was just discovering my passion for the art of surgery and would have quasi-literally given my […]
Breast Cancer Boot Camp or Why Do Clinical Trials Take So Much Effort?
No one ever said that clinical research is easy, but researchers can be informed by the aphorism about exercise, “no pain, no gain!” Roshni Rao, MD, a breast surgical oncologist at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, recently posed the question, “what is the benefit of exercise in patients with breast cancer?” Certainly, many […]