The @PCSAsurg Presidential address by @DianaFarmerMD was, as expected, from the heart and influential. She started with a memoriam to our beloved Dr Susan Orloff, talented Hepatobiliary liver transplant surgeon and a friend of the Pacific Coast Surgical Association. We will all

I like this idea… anyone else doing this?

Switching from 1-10 sliding scale numeric scoring system to a stratified functional scoring system for PAIN..

Dr Dan Deugarte described how this practice can reduce opioids administered to pain.

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Wow! @StanfordMed @StanfordSurgery Dr Stephanie Seale with @LiebertCara and her team took the same CV and uploaded it to AI to write a letter of recommendation for a male and a female applicant. The outcome was interesting;

🧐 ChatGPT had the most disparate letters.

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Applying to residency in the US nowadays has become SO competitive. Many take 1+ years off to do research, and we have students with scores of publications before applying.

The paper by @drdevirgilio and his group @HarborUCLASurg @HarborUCLA provoked healthy discussion about the

Who routinely cultures for appendicitis during appendectomy? 🙋🏻‍♀️

As head of the Surgical Infections Research Group when I was at @KeckMedicineUSC , I am an advocate of always being curious and culturing all infections. The information gathered can guide evidence based ...therapies

Congratulations Dr Justin Steggerda, new member of the @PCSAsurg .

@DeptSurgeryCS @CedarsSinai #PCSA2026

Madame President @DianaFarmerMD of @PCSAsurg opens the #PCSA2026 meeting.

I’ll be live tweeting the meeting this year. Follow me to learn.