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By Steve Duquette, MD I am extremely fortunate. I love my practice. I love the people I work with. My wife and family are happy here. We weren’t supposed to be here. The Covid-19 pandemic has created turmoil and tragedy across the entire globe over the past 2 years. Personally, it completely changed my career. Once I had matched into […]
By Rodger D. Powell, MD When asked to contribute to the newsletter, my topic was what “fork in the road” decided my ultimate career. Two thoughts immediately came to mind. First, it would be abundantly clear that I am not a writer. Secondly, that there was more than one fork that determined my final choice. […]
By Todd A. Rubin, MD In the throes of training, whether medical school, residency, or fellowship, the ever so-called “fork in the road” can sometimes seem more like the glass bridge from the 2021 viral Netflix hit Squid Games. Before matriculating to medical school, I was a promising student at Emory University with goals of […]
By Ronit Wollstein, MD I have a very distinct memory of my husband and I sitting in a completely packed-up house waiting for the movers to come and looking at each other thinking, are we really sure we want to do this? We were preparing to move to a new location after fellowship. For the […]
By Richard S. Smith, MD I would like to add my perspectives on my recent retirement to this edition of ASSH Perspectives. In February, 2021, I retired after over 30 years of practice. This was a planned event centered around my youngest daughter’s graduation from medical school in June, 2020, and the expiration of my […]
By Peter Casey, MD As hand and upper extremity surgeons, we spend countless hours of our lives trying to perfect our craft in order to provide our patients with the best care possible. During this training it is easy to focus solely on our careers and overlook our roles outside of the workplace. Over the […]
By Joseph Meyerson, MD I still feel this phrase conjures images of an old, grizzled surgeon with white hair that takes house calls and uses rudimentary instruments and old school methods to get the job done. Even when I say I’m “a rural hand surgeon” I feel that people look me up and down and […]
By Hua Tang, MD At age 36, my family moved to United States. My wife and I gave up our medical practice. I was an orthopedic surgeon and my wife was an internal medicine physician in my native country. After we moved here, we had very difficult time in the beginning. My wife and I had to […]
By Cheng-Yu Yin, MD It is my pleasure to share my experience with the members of ASSH, and I, as a young hand surgeon from a small island, am very grateful for having the opportunity to write ASSH Perspectives. Although it may depend on different cultures for specialty preference of orthopedics, hand surgery is not […]
By Soumen Das De, MD, FRCS, MPH “The natural history of science is the study of the unknown. If you fear it, then you’re not going to study it, and you’re not going to make any progress.” – Michael E. DeBakey, Cardiovascular Surgeon One of the things I really like about Hand Surgery is its […]