These days, you can’t turn on the TV without being assaulted by drug commercials promising to improve everything from your erection to your opioid-induced constipation...

Not long ago, the notion of opioid-sparing surgery — the process of reducing potentially addictive narcotics through pre- and intraoperative multimodal anesthesia...

Q&A with Amrita Sethi, MD, MASGE, NYSGEF, founder and president of Women in Endoscopy (WIE), on the importance of women in the field....

As healthcare providers, we continuously push the boundaries of what we can safely do on an outpatient basis....

Growing up with two younger brothers and a little sister, I felt like my parents were practicing on me....

Welcome to A Day in the Life of an Administrator, our new online column, where we sat down with Victoria Wiltshire, MBA, RN, VP and Chief Operating Officer...

Whenever I get up in the morning before a long shift, I need to check the weather forecast....

Most surgical cases were done open or laparoscopically back then. No emergent, complex or urgent case was performed in a minimally invasive fashion....

April flooding brought May flowers to sunny California, where I’m on assignment....

I’ve been in the infection prevention program here at UnityPoint Health - Meriter for about 12 years, where I split my time between doing disease...

The infection preventionist epitomizes the concept of on-the-job training. There’s no university degree that solely prepares you for a...

As a child I loved games. These tests of wit, luck and athletic ability taught me everything I needed to know about winning, losing and life....

“He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has....”

Tell us how long you’ve been in your current position and what your job entails. I’ve been in my current position for 28 years. My responsibilities include design...

Soon after I started my career in the OR 42 38 (!) years ago, the first Universal Law of OR Nursing grabbed me by my scrub jacket and shook me into a higher state of consciousness....

Construction of any medical facility — a large hospital or a small ambulatory surgery center (ASC) — has one foundational goal: to effectively...

What has changed is the steady growth in awareness among patients and payers about surgery centers and the reliable patient care and positive outcomes they deliver. What hasn’t changed, unfortunately, is the need for...

Ten years ago, I walked into a meeting with my current business partner, and he listed a handful of goals on a single eight-and-a-half by eleven-inch sheet of paper. A decade later, we’ve achieved all of those original goals....

Every profession has its own secret language, but it’s safe to say our workplace jargon is in a class of its own. We have a storied history of mnemonics, acronyms and devices to recall information on a dime....