The Surgeons' Lounge: Antibiotic prophylaxis. When's it best to administer antibiotics?

The Surgeons' Lounge: Surgeon scribe. Surgeon's book blasts the big business of surgery.

The art of the IV start. Slide in smoothly with first-stick success, even on barely visible and rolling veins.

Legal Update: Price your physician buy-ins with care. 3 lessons learned from a $5M whistleblower settlement.

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All tissue banks are not the same. 3 steps to ensure your grafts are safe and effective.

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Staffing: Rehab your difficult docs. Yes, you have the power to change their troublesome behavior.

Cutting Remarks: It's a mad dash when I overbook. I'll do anything to avoid the 5 o'clock witching hour.

The details of decontamination. Start sterile processing on the right foot.

From Hollywood to health care: 3D, HD and 4K are revolutionizing surgical visualization.

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Letters and Emails

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How we beat pressure ulcers. The 7 things we did to lower our skin injury rate.

Editor's Page: Hostility: healthcare's huge cultural problem. It's truly sad when your reward for sharing is petty lateral violence.

Skin in the game. What are your pre-op bathing practices?

Anesthesia Alert: 4 keys to my anesthesia technique. My patients wake up faster with less pain and fewer complications.

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