The start of a new year is a natural time to take stock of what’s going on in your life and decide if you need to change things up. Resolutions are fun to read about and easy fodder for social media, but the “new year, new me” mantra is played out. We’re all hardwired in certain ways, for better or worse, and the flip of a...

For the second straight year, outpatient surgery leaders were forced to work in extremely difficult conditions. Not only did you continue to fight the scourge of COVID-19 by protecting yourselves, your staffs and your patients, but unprecedented staffing shortages have forced some of you to don surgical attire and work in ORs far more than you...

Patients who experience numbness and pain in their hands — the telltale symptoms of carpal tunnel syndrome — can opt to have the condition treated with open surgery performed through an inch-long incision made on the palm of the hand or endoscopically through a 2 cm incision made at the base of the wrist. Both techniques are effective...