You need to read this book if you want to know anything about anorectal pathology! Although my favorite chapter is the chapter on training and mentorship!

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Amazing new book by the incomparable Marcus Burnstein

Bummer: What You Need to Know About Anal Health

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We urgently request that the Canadian Government do everything within its power to achieve an immediate ceasefire in #Gaza . Ending the indiscriminate violence is the only way to prevent more deaths and scale up desperately needed humanitarian assistance.

Today, led by unions, civil society organizations, and an interfaith coalition, Canadians will be marching from coast to coast to call for peace - and for a ceasefire.

We ask that you make your voices heard peacefully and lawfully.

Ours is a call to peace. That’s it.

So much passion at our Fellows' Case presentations at the #COLbootcamp2023

Congratulations to the Dr. Christine Li & the team at UBC for winning the 2023 #Colorectal Cup! Dr. Carl J Brown 🌎 UBC General Surgery UBC Medicine

Surgical research isn’t only about technology, but about creating a sustainable system.
Dr Andrea MacNeill has been working with Dr Lalande in changing the way we think about food in medicine.
Dr Spoyalo has been implementing sustainable patient warming in the OR Vancouver Coastal Health

It's clear Canadians want an end to the violence in #Gaza .

A new poll commissioned by NCCM and conducted by Mainstreet Research shows that over 71% of Canadians support the call for a ceasefire.

A majority of Liberal, NDP, and Conservative voters also want #Canada to call for a…

Congratulations Patricia Sylla on your landmark #TaTME study pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37700015/ Surgical Endoscopy pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37450694/ Annals of Surgery Thank you SAGES - Heading to Cleveland 2024 ASCRS_1 for financial grant support without which the study would not have been possible

Saturday #selfcare
Tell me you’re Punjabi without saying that you’re Punjabi #makkiroti #saag Surgical Ergonomics

Victor Lazaron MD, PhD Ron Barbosa MD FACS Ameer Farooq, MD, MPH, FRCSC Zuhaib M. Mir, MD MSc Sunil Patel ✒️ Kelly Vogt Rob Leeper Maddy Lemke One of many things!

We are deeply concerned about this issue.

Let us be clear.

Canadians, including law professors - can and should and should be able to raise concerns about human rights without government interference.

We will be raising our concerns to the Ontario government in this regard.

On October 17, Jill Dunlop, Ontario's Minister of Colleges and Universities in Doug Ford's government, launched a targeted attack against me, other professors, and students who have engaged in public speech supportive of Palestinians and critical of Israel's war on Gaza. 🧵

Ron Barbosa MD FACS Ameer Farooq, MD, MPH, FRCSC Zuhaib M. Mir, MD MSc Sunil Patel ✒️ Kelly Vogt Rob Leeper Maddy Lemke Then again, if you DO operate in the middle of the night because the next day is always full, depending on the staff format you can easily zombify your department, who often have to work the next day or get up even earlier than we do. Eventually they'll leave. HNNG

Bombing multiple hospitals, in a confined area where nowhere is safe and no one is allowed to leave. Unbelievable. When you think it can't get any more inhumane, it does. 💔

Again, I’ve seen doctors ENRAGED by far less.

Alex Rodriguez Ron Barbosa MD FACS Ameer Farooq, MD, MPH, FRCSC Zuhaib M. Mir, MD MSc Kelly Vogt Rob Leeper Maddy Lemke Our hospital KingstonHSC and where I trained London Health Sciences Centre both have dedicated daytime emergency general surgery time. An essential for this type of strategy!

Alex Rodriguez Ron Barbosa MD FACS Ameer Farooq, MD, MPH, FRCSC Zuhaib M. Mir, MD MSc Sunil Patel ✒️ Kelly Vogt Maddy Lemke That’s the beauty of this paper. We showed there’s absolutely nothing wrong with doing them in the middle of the night if that’s what your external forces dictate. We just proved that systems with daytime EGS access, like ours, get the same results doing them the next day ☺️

Ameer Farooq, MD, MPH, FRCSC Zuhaib M. Mir, MD MSc Sunil Patel ✒️ Kelly Vogt Rob Leeper Maddy Lemke Always a difficult issue because it depends so highly on your hospital and system.

As an example, for us the ‘next morning’ is often mythical… it often becomes “the next day at 7 PM”, which then starts adding hospital days and so forth.

The answer to which is not “simply…