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Tag: learning

Careful Preparation

By Joseph M. Sherrill, MD I appreciate the opportunity to discuss or share with the ASSH Perspective Audience how I emotionally handle bad treatment outcomes, and how these experiences have shaped me as a surgeon. I am 70 years old and have worked in a busy private practice model since 1980, and more recently in […]

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Trust and Lifelong Learning

By Robert Harold Ablove, MD “If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am not for others, what am I? And if not now, when?” The above quote is from Hillel the elder, a second century Rabbi. It has largely informed my career. The purpose of my career has been […]

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The Wrist: Diagnosis and Operative Treatment

By Nina Suh, MD, FRCSC Choosing one book that every hand surgeon should read is a difficult task as the options for academic, leadership, and organizational behaviour books that are applicable to our subspecialty are endless. Overall, I believe a voracious appetite for reading and a curiosity to expand beyond the routine orthopaedic or plastic surgery […]

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It’s All in Your Head

By Richard C. Trevino, II, MD What book should I read? Twenty-four years ago, this was the question that I asked Robert Beckenbaugh. Without hesitation, the answer was Green’s. Today, with the ever-increasing knowledge base, research, and writer educators, the question has changed to which books should I read. I have in my own personal […]

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The Way Things Work

By Anselm Wong, MD As a relatively newer hand surgeon, I have considered very many texts essential for my growth in skill, knowledge base, and techniques.  It is therefore difficult to pick just one book that I would say we all must read over the others.  I still use the same Netter’s I read on […]

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