By Mary L. Brandt If you don’t work in an operating room, you may not be aware of the controversy going on about OR caps. To get right to the point – the surgeons think they should be allowed ...
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#BanTheBouffant
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Jul 2018
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Summertime Safety
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Jun 2018
As a trauma surgeon, there are days of the year that we know will be busy calls. New Year’s Eve, Halloween, and the upcoming Fourth of July. It’s a good reminder that we all need to be safe and...
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An Open Letter to AWS Members from Communications Committee
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Feb 2018
Two years ago, a friend and mentor approached me and asked me to help manage the communications team for AWS. Like I do with most things, I approached this with gusto. I got organized, made lists, set...
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Sexual Harassment in Medicine
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Feb 2018
I recently came across an LA Times headline asking, "Will Medicine be the next field to face a sexual harassment reckoning?" By now, we are all familiar with the Harvey Weinstein story and witnessed t...
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Building resilience in the wake of Sutherland Springs – How will we survive another mass casualty event?
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Dec 2017
For years now, our regional trauma system has performed scheduled drills of potential mass casualty events: an airplane crash, a stadium event, a nightclub shooting, etc. Our team is prepared to care ...
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Hurricane Season: A Family Affair
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Nov 2017
News of hurricane Irma came on the heels of witnessing the heroism and devastation of hurricane Harvey in Texas. Yes heroism. Natural disasters do not discriminate and we have witnessed people of a...
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Look for the Helpers – A Surgeon-in-Training’s Thoughts on the Orlando Shooting
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Jun 2016
By Brittany Bankhead-Kendall As events unfold and I wonder if some day my own trauma pager will have the words "mass casualty" on it, and on how sad that is, I am reminded of a great quote: "Whe...
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June is National Safety Month
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Jun 2016
As a trauma surgeon, I should be thinking about safety all the time, and writing about it should be easy. But when I really sat and thought about safety, I found that it’s more difficult than one ...