By Tomas Martin, M.D. Professor of surgery When you think of Africa, you probably think of jungles, lions, monkeys, gazelles, elephants and wide-open savannahs. What you probably don’t think about is the need for surgeons. According to a 2011 article in the World Journal…

A ride into a new adventure           By Georgios Rossidis, M.D. Assistant professor of surgery “Time out. This is patient …” It is early July 2012. Hard to believe that the day has come — my first case as an attending, my first…

Veteran Benefits         By Anthony McDonald, M.D. Assistant professor of surgery Five years have gone by in a heartbeat. Perhaps appropriately, I joined the general surgery staff at the Malcom Randall VA Medical Center the day after its most hallowed holiday,…

By Emina Huang, M.D. Associate professor of colorectal surgery With increased choices regarding health-care providers, there continues to be a paucity of women surgeons in academic health centers. Though women constitute 50 percent of medical school matriculants, and fully 30 percent of surgery residents, vanishingly few continue and are…

By Alex Cuenca, M.D. Though I’m not sure how I exactly got where I am today, I could probably trace it back to my father. In 1980, we lived in a growing city in the south of the Philippines. I can still remember sitting in my father’s office as…