SurgeXperiences -- Call for Submissions

Updated 3/2017 -- all links (except to my own posts) removed as many no longer active. 

SurgeXperiences is a blog carnival about surgical blogs that occurs every two weeks. It is open to all (surgeon, nurse, anesthesia, patient, etc) who have a surgical blog or article to submit.  

There is no host listed for  SurgeXperiences 324 which is due to run June 13th, but please don’t let that keep you from making your surgically related posts via this form.  Submissions should be made by midnight Friday, June  11th.

If you wish to host SurgeXperiences 324 or any future edition, please contact Jeffrey who runs the show here.

Here is the catalog of past SurgeXperiences editions for your reading pleasure.

SurgeXperiences 323 is Up!

Updated 3/2017 -- photos and all links removed as many no longer active.

Dr Jon Mikel, Unbounded Medicine, is the host of this edition of SurgeXperiences. It is the FIFA South Africa World Cup edition. Here is the beginning of this edition which you can read here. (photo credit)

I would like to express my gratitude to Jeffrey Leow of Vagus Surgicalis (Australian medical student with lots of interest and knowledge of surgery) and the creator of this Great Carnival. Australia is in Group D.

The host of the next edition (324) has not been announced, but don’t let that keep you from making your submissions. Be sure to make your submissions by the deadline: midnight on Friday, June 11th. Be sure to submit your post via this form.

SurgeXperiences is a blog carnival about surgical blogs. It is open to all (surgeon, nurse, anesthesia, patient, etc) who have a surgical blog or article to submit.

Here is the catalog of past SurgeXperiences editions for your reading pleasure. If you wish to host a future edition, please contact Jeffrey who runs the show here.

SurgeXperiences – Call for Submissions

Updated 3/2017 -- all links removed as many no longer active. and it was easier than checking each one.

SurgeXperiences is a blog carnival about surgical blogs that occurs every two weeks. It is open to all (surgeon, nurse, anesthesia, patient, etc) who have a surgical blog or article to submit.  

Due to a lack of a host for May 18th, SurgeXperiences 323 has been moved to May 30th.  The host will be Dr Jon Mikel, Unbounded Medicine. 

Be sure to make your submissions by the deadline: midnight on Friday, May 28th.  Submissions can be made either via this form or directly by emailing Dr. Mikel  at jonmikel+surgexp@gmail.com.

If you wish to host SurgeXperiences 324 or any future edition, please contact Jeffrey who runs the show here.

Here is the catalog of past SurgeXperiences editions for your reading pleasure.

SurgeXperiences -- Call for Submissions

Updated 3/2017 -- all links (except to my own posts) removed as many no longer active. and it was easier than checking each one.

SurgeXperiences is a blog carnival about surgical blogs that occurs every two weeks. It is open to all (surgeon, nurse, anesthesia, patient, etc) who have a surgical blog or article to submit.  

The host of the next edition (323) has not been announced, but don’t let that keep you from making your submissions.  It is scheduled to occur on May 16th.   Be sure to make your submissions by the deadline: midnight on Friday, May 14th.   Be sure to submit your post via this form.

If you wish to host SurgeXperiences 323 or any future edition, please contact Jeffrey who runs the show here.

Here is the catalog of past SurgeXperiences editions for your reading pleasure.

 

Happy Mother’s Day to you all!

SurgeXperiences 322 is Up!

Updated 3/2017 -- photos and all links (except to my own posts) removed as many no longer active. and it was easier than checking each one.

Jeffrey, Vagus Surgicalis, is the host of this edition of SurgeXperiences. Here is the beginning of this edition which you can read here. (photo credit)

Welcome to this fortnight’s SurgeXperiences, where we feature several blog articles which might be of interest to surgeons, anesthesiologists, scrub nurses, nurses, students, techs, or just about anyone who is fascinated by the surgical discipline!

Believing that I cannot better reflect what the various excellent bloggers already have in their own words, I hereby present some of our regular surg bloggers’ recent posts!

The host of the next edition (323) has not been announced, but don’t let that keep you from making your submissions. Be sure to make your submissions by the deadline: midnight on Friday, May 14th.   Be sure to submit your post via this form.

SurgeXperiences is a blog carnival about surgical blogs. It is open to all (surgeon, nurse, anesthesia, patient, etc) who have a surgical blog or article to submit.

Here is the catalog of past SurgeXperiences editions for your reading pleasure. If you wish to host a future edition, please contact Jeffrey who runs the show here.

SurgeXperiences – Call for Submissions

Updated 3/2017 -- all links (except to my own posts) removed as many no longer active. and it was easier than checking each one.

SurgeXperiences is a blog carnival about surgical blogs that occurs every two weeks. It is open to all (surgeon, nurse, anesthesia, patient, etc) who have a surgical blog or article to submit.  

The host of the next edition (322) has not been announced, but don’t let that keep you from making your submissions.  It is scheduled to occur on May 2nd.   Be sure to make your submissions by the deadline: midnight on Friday, April 30th.   Be sure to submit your post via this form.

If you wish to host SurgeXperiences 322 or any future edition, please contact Jeffrey who runs the show here.

Here is the catalog of past SurgeXperiences editions for your reading pleasure.

SurgeXperiences 321

Updated 3/2017 -- all links (except to my own posts) removed as many no longer active. and it was easier than checking each one.

This makes my 9th time to host SurgeXperiences since it began July 1, 2007.  The first season I hosted twice, the second season three times, and this one makes the fourth this season. 

There have been very few submissions for this edition, so I’m going to honor the ones who have hosted SurgeXperiences.  Many thanks to each of you.

The blog world being what it is, I suppose it should not be surprising that several of the past hosts have either retired or are infrequently posting.  I miss them.

• Surgeonsblog (no longer posting, but old ones still available for reading) – check out his Limerick edition of SurgeXperiences or sample his other posts.
• IntraopOrate (rarely posting these days) – check out her post on “pet peeves”
• Counting Sheep (who’s site doesn’t even come up anymore)
• Papermask (posting infrequently)  -- check out his post “Pssst! Pass it on!”
• Marianas Eye (last post November 2009) – check out his “funniest OR experiences” edition of SurgeXperiences
• Cut on the dotted line  (last posted Feb 1, 2010, but let me refer you to this one – second chance)
• Made a Difference (has posted at that blog site since Oct 2009, now blogs at Coppola:  A Pediatric Surgeon in Iraq, less on surgery and more on military/support issues) – check out his “Full Metal Scalpel: The love-hate relationship between surgery and war” edition
• The Chloroform RAG (blog has gone private, invitation only)
• Amanzimtoti (last posted November 2009, but can be found on twitter)  -- check out her post “Collateral damage”
• Vitum medicinus  (has not posted in 2010) – check out this post “The best part of spending two weeks with medevac? Not what you might think.”
• OpNotes  (no posts since April 2008) – check out this one “The problem with laparoscopic training”
• “The scalpel is mightier than the sword” (this blog has been taken down)
• Just Up The Dose  (no posts since October 2009) – check out this post “When it's someone you know”
•  From Dupont to Abdoun  (no new posts since April 2009) – check out this post “Before and After”

Perhaps the above blogs will become more active again.  One can hope.  In the meantime, many remain active and I hope will continue:

• other things amanzi (one of my favorite blogs) – check out these two posts “compassion fatigue” and “dogma”
• Reflections in a Head Mirror (another favorite) – check out his post “Time”
• Buckeye Surgeon (another favorite) – check out this non-surgical post of his “Believing in what you do”
• Notes of an Anesthesioboist (anesthesiologist who is a marvelous writer)  -- check out this post “When Your Life ALMOST Flashes Before Your Eyes”
• Aggravated DocSurg – check out this post “If they could only all be taken to Rampart Hospital”
• The Sterile Eye  (love your photos and history lessons) – check out this old post of his “Surgical history”
• Life in the Fast Lane (written by several ER docs in Australia) – check out this post “Minor Injuries 003”
• Scalpel’s Edge (Posts infrequently due to the birth of her third child and her thesis work.  I do still have contact with her via twitter.) – check out her post “Mechanics and Surgeons”
• scan man’s notes (Posts infrequently, but active on twitter and Facebook so I still have contact with him.)
• Dr D J’s Surgical Adventures (a surgeon in India) -- check out this post “Voldemortish experience?”
• Unbounded Medicine – recent post highlights “Violinist having surgery while awake and playing”
• Jeffrey MD  (remains active as he makes his way through medical school) – check out this post “Why Bother Learning Something We’ll Lose?”
• The Sandman  (rare posts, but check out this one – a change of plans and A Veritable Madhouse)
• Education of a Knife  (this medical student who is leaning towards surgery continues to blog) – check out this post “My patient died”
• survive the journey (a Cushing’s patient who bravely posts a “365 days with Cushing's”) --  check out her post “Transsphenoidal Surgery: Comparison of Techniques”
• Frankie’s Hideout (recollections, complete with flashbacks and derogative collioqy) – check out this post "You're Not Really A Doctor If"
• Adventures of a Funky Heart (an adult congenital heart survivor) – check out his post on his scars “Battle Wounds (NSFW)”
• Vagus Surgicalis (last, but not least as he is the founder of SurgeXperiences) --  check out his post “mischief in theatre”

 

Here are a few from folks who have not been host.  These posts are good.

Michelle, the Underwear Drawer, writes “the ballad of the unsung hero”

Many people probably saw this already, it was printed in The New York Times on April 9th, but just in case you missed it, I thought I should give it a little bump:  Doctors Remove Ammunition From Soldier’s Head

The reason I'm posting this is not because it's one of those "Ripley's Believe It Or Not" medical stories (even though it is), but it's because if anything redeems the much maligned field of anesthesiology from the jaws of modern day television, in which we are all portrayed as lazy, unfeeling, drunken, drug-diverting billionaires who don't give a shit about our patients and leave whenever the going gets rough, it should be a story like this.

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Kerri, SixUntilMe, who is now a mother of a health baby girl.  She wrote this post before the C-section:  “Diabetes During the C-Section: Here's the Plan.”

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Dr. Howard J Luks, an orthopedist asks In Reporting Symptoms, Don’t Patients Know Best? - Do docs downgrade complaints?

This is a very serious issue... and it comes up for discussion with our residents every now and then. A while back there was a young man in the emergency room of our institution. He claimed the CIA was after him and they injected him with a substance that made him pass out... When he woke up, his shoulder hurt and he had soiled his underwear. I was called because I was the attending on call for our department. My resident immediately dismissed all his complaints and was upset that he was called for a consult in the middle of the night. After I settled him down, we had a little talk...

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Dr. Benzil, Women Neurosurgeons blog, has a nice post on transplant and the neurosurgeon.

One of the things I love about blogging is how a link leads to a link leads to a great story.  SurgeXperiences 319 (available here ) related a link about Steve Jobs and his liver transplant. Most neurosurgeons spend a part of their residency learning the ins and outs of brain death testing-a critical link in the transplant world.  At first it may seem gruesome and unnatural ….

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SurgeXperiences is a blog carnival about surgical blogs that occurs every two weeks. It is open to all (surgeon, nurse, anesthesia, patient, etc) who have a surgical blog or article to submit.

Here is the catalog of past SurgeXperiences editions for your reading pleasure. If you wish to host a future edition, please contact Jeffrey who runs the show here.

SurgeXperiences -- Call for Submissions

Updated 3/2017 -- all links (except to my own posts) removed as many no longer active. and it was easier than checking each one.

SurgeXperiences is a blog carnival about surgical blogs that occurs every two weeks. It is open to all (surgeon, nurse, anesthesia, patient, etc) who have a surgical blog or article to submit.  

The last edition (319) was hosted by Vijay, Scan Man’s Notes, three weeks ago.  You can read it here.   Jeffrey has listed my Easter Sunday Update as edition 320.

I will be the host of this next edition (321), so please get those submissions in.   The host of the next edition (321) has not been announced, but don’t let that keep you from making your submissions.  It is scheduled to occur on April 18th.   Be sure to make your submissions by the deadline: midnight on Friday, April 16th.   Be sure to submit your post via this form.

 

Here is the catalog of past SurgeXperiences editions for your reading pleasure. If you wish to host a future edition, please contact Jeffrey who runs the show here.

Happy Easter Sunday

Updated 3/2017 -- photos and all links (except to my own posts) removed as many no longer active. and it was easier than checking each one.

First, I’d like to wish you all a Happy Easter.  I’ll begin mine with the Community Easter Sunrise Service down at the Arkansas River front. 

Next, I’d like to say I’m not sure what happened with #320 edition of SurgeXperiences which was due today, so I’ll just give you a few links to some surgical blog posts.

Here is the catalog of past SurgeXperiences editions for your reading pleasure. If you wish to host a future edition, please contact Jeffrey who runs the show here.

 

• A classic op-ed post over at KevinMD’s by surgeon Sid Schwab:  "No more and no less a human being than my patients"
• Dr. Bruce Campbell, Reflections in a Head Mirror, gives us this very thoughtful post:  Turning Away.
• Bongi, other things amanzi, gives us a story relating how six degrees of separation can change how patients get treated.  He has another on anatomy.
• Via TBTAM’s recommendation as I somehow missed this when it was published November 21, 2009 comes a post from MommyDoc:  And that’s the way Sue “C’s” it.
• From Aggravated DocSurg:  If they could only all be taken to Rampart Hospital
• From Michael, Medgadget comes this post:  Photo Contest Profiles Role of Science in Modern Life.  (follow the links included in the post)
  
• Kane Guthrie, Life in the Fast Lane,  gives us a lesson on Minor Injuries 001.
  
• Dr. Wes tells us about a carpenter who had his  one heart nailed and lived to tell about it.
  
•  Buckeye Surgeon gives you the answer to his weekend image.  Go check yourself.
  

 

 

Hope you enjoy your day!

SurgeXperiences 320 – Call for Submissions

Updated 3/2017 -- all links (except to my own posts) removed as many no longer active. and it was easier than checking each one.

There is no scheduled host for SurgeXperiences 320 (April 4th), but don’t let that keep you from making your submissions.  If you would like to host edition #320 or any future editions, please contact Jeffrey who runs the show here.

SurgeXperiences is a blog carnival about surgical blogs. It is open to all (surgeon, nurse, anesthesia, patient, etc) who have a surgical blog or article to submit. You are encouraged to submit your surgery related posts.

The deadline for submissions to be included in the 320 edition is midnight on Friday, April 2nd.   Be sure to submit your post via this form.

Here is the catalog of past SurgeXperiences editions for your reading pleasure.

SurgeXperiences 319 is Up!

Updated 3/2017 -- photos and all links (except to my own posts) removed as many no longer active. and it was easier than checking each one.

Vijay, Scan Man’s Notes, is the host of this edition of SurgeXperiences. Here is the beginning of this edition which you can read here. (photo credit)

You know, I am hearing a lot about March Madness from my American friends on twitter and facebook. I am not knowing what that really means, but I am thinking it must have something to do with their healthcare reform bill which I am growing sick of hearing about. So I was thinking I will use this March Madness thing as a theme for this edition of SurgeXperiences. Since I am already telling you that I am not knowing anything about what this March Madness is about, I am going to let you guess how I am using it as my theme. *

The host of the next edition (320) has not been announced, but don’t let that keep you from making your submissions. Be sure to make your submissions by the deadline: midnight on Friday, April 1st.   Be sure to submit your post via this form.

SurgeXperiences is a blog carnival about surgical blogs. It is open to all (surgeon, nurse, anesthesia, patient, etc) who have a surgical blog or article to submit.

Here is the catalog of past SurgeXperiences editions for your reading pleasure. If you wish to host a future edition, please contact Jeffrey who runs the show here.

SurgeXperience 319 – Call for Submissions

Updated 3/2017 -- all links (except to my own posts) removed as many no longer active. and it was easier than checking each one.

Vijay, Scan Man’s Notes, will be the host There is no scheduled host for SurgeXperiences 319 (March 21st), but don’t let that keep you from making your submissions. So be sure you make your submissions to him.  If you would like to host edition #319 or any future editions, please contact Jeffrey who runs the show here.

SurgeXperiences is a blog carnival about surgical blogs. It is open to all (surgeon, nurse, anesthesia, patient, etc) who have a surgical blog or article to submit. You are encouraged to submit your surgery related posts.

The deadline for submissions to be included in the 319 edition is midnight on Friday, March 19th.   Be sure to submit your post via this form.

Here is the catalog of past SurgeXperiences editions for your reading pleasure.

SurgeXperiences 318 is Up!

Updated 3/2017 -- photos and all links (except to my own posts) removed as many no longer active. and it was easier than checking each one.

Life in the Fast Lane is the host of this edition of SurgeXperiences. Here is the beginning of this edition which you can read here. (photo credit)

G’day and welcome to SurgeXperiences 318!

SurgeXperiences is a fortnightly blog carnival bringing together posts from the best and brightest of the surgical blogosphere.

Today it comes to you from the home of the sandgroper, right on the edge the Indian Ocean. As first-time hosts of a blog carnival, the Life in the Fast Lane team are rapt, stoked even, to have the opportunity support the blogging community by serving up what we reckon will be an absolutely ripper edition of SurgeXperiences.  No doubt about it, SurgeXperiences 318 showcases some fair dinkum bonzer bloggers, covering the entire gamut of surgical experience -  the patient, the knife and the bench…

The host of the next edition (319) has not been announced, but don’t let that keep you from making your submissions. Be sure to make your submissions by the deadline: midnight on Friday, March 19th. Be sure to submit your post via this form.

SurgeXperiences is a blog carnival about surgical blogs. It is open to all (surgeon, nurse, anesthesia, patient, etc) who have a surgical blog or article to submit.

Here is the catalog of past SurgeXperiences editions for your reading pleasure. If you wish to host a future edition, please contact Jeffrey who runs the show here.

SurgeXperience 318 – Call for Submissions

Updated 3/2017-- all links removed as many no longer active. and it was easier than checking each one.

SurgeXperiences 318 will make a trip Down Under to Life in the Fast Lane on March 7th.

Life in the Fast Lane was born out of an intense desire to procrastinate..

Australian emergency physicians exploring the changing world of elearning, critical care and toxicology through clinical cases, fictionalized anecdotes and medical satire.

Our team was born out of passionate (and usually unresolved) debate pertaining to the elements of eLearning; medical education; medical history; political ambiguity; information sharing; the open source era and the ethos of web 2.0.

SurgeXperiences is a blog carnival about surgical blogs. It is open to all (surgeon, nurse, anesthesia, patient, etc) who have a surgical blog or article to submit.  You are encouraged to submit your surgery related posts. 

The deadline for submissions to be included in the 318 edition is midnight on Friday, March 5th.  Be sure to submit your post via this form. 

Here is the catalog of past SurgeXperiences editions for your reading pleasure.
If you would like to host afuture editions, please contact Jeffrey who runs the show here.

SurgeXperiences 317 is Up!

Updated 3/2017-- all links (except to my own posts) removed as many no longer active. and it was easier than checking each one.

Jeffrey, Vagus surgicalis, is the host of this edition of SurgeXperiences. Here is the beginning of this edition which you can read here. (photo credit)

Welcome to yet another fortnight of SurgeXperiences, where we feature several blog articles which might be of interest to surgeons, anesthesiologists, scrub nurses, nurses, students, techs, or just about anyone who is fascinated by the surgical discipline – where one has to cut to cure and heal.

The host of the next edition (318) has not been announced, but don’t let that keep you from making your submissions. Be sure to make your submissions by the deadline: midnight on Friday, March 5th. Be sure to submit your post via this form.

SurgeXperiences is a blog carnival about surgical blogs. It is open to all (surgeon, nurse, anesthesia, patient, etc) who have a surgical blog or article to submit.

Here is the catalog of past SurgeXperiences editions for your reading pleasure. If you wish to host a future edition, please contact Jeffrey who runs the show here.

SurgeXperiences 317 – Call for Submissions

Updated 3/2017-- all links (except to my own posts) removed as many no longer active. and it was easier than checking each one.

There is no scheduled host for SurgeXperiences 317 (February 21st), but don’t let that keep you from making your submissions. If you would like to host edition #317 or any future editions, please contact Jeffrey who runs the show here.

SurgeXperiences is a blog carnival about surgical blogs. It is open to all (surgeon, nurse, anesthesia, patient, etc) who have a surgical blog or article to submit. You are encouraged to submit your surgery related posts.

The deadline for submissions to be included in the 317 edition is midnight on Friday, February 19th. Be sure to submit your post via this form.

Here is the catalog of past SurgeXperiences editions for your reading pleasure.

SurgeXperiences 316 is Up

Updated 3/2017-- photo and all links (except to my own posts) removed as many no longer active. and it was easier than checking each one.


Dr DJ  is the host of this edition of SurgeXperiences. Here is the beginning of this edition which you can read here.  (photo credit)

Welcome to the 316 Edition of SurgeXperiences - The Surgical blog carnival. I was overwhelmed with the number of submissions I got and it was nothing short of a party for me to read all the posts.

The host of the next edition (317) has not been announced, but don’t let that keep you from making your submissions. Be sure to make your submissions by the deadline:  midnight on Friday,February 19th. Be sure to submit your post via this form.

SurgeXperiences is a blog carnival about surgical blogs. It is open to all (surgeon, nurse, anesthesia, patient, etc) who have a surgical blog or article to submit.

Here is the catalog of past SurgeXperiences editions for your reading pleasure. If you wish to host a future edition, please contact Jeffrey who runs the show here.

SurgeXperiences 316 – Call for Submissions

Updated 3/2017:  links removed as many no longer active.

Dr DJ, a private surgeon in India,  will be the host for SurgeXperiences 316 (February 7th).  The author behind this blog describes himself this way: 

A surgeon with a penchant for writing and a passion for revealing the truth behind the farce that is the Indian Medical Industry.

SurgeXperiences is a blog carnival about surgical blogs. It is open to all (surgeon, nurse, anesthesia, patient, etc) who have a surgical blog or article to submit.  You are encouraged to submit your surgery related posts.   The deadline for submissions to be included in the 316 edition is midnight on Friday, February 5th.  Be sure to submit your post via this form. 

If you would like to be the host  for a future edition of SurgeXperiences, please contact Jeffrey who runs the show here.

Here is the catalog of past SurgeXperiences editions for your reading pleasure.

SurgeXperience 315 is Up

Updated 3/2017:  all links removed as some blogs/posts no longer active. 
Education of a Knife  is the host of this edition of SurgeXperiences. Here is the beginning of this edition which you can read here. 

The host of the next edition (316) will be Dr DJ, a private surgeon from India, has not been announced, but don’t let that keep you from making your submissions. Be sure to make your submissions by the deadline:  midnight on Friday,February 5th. Be sure to submit your post via this form.

SurgeXperiences is a blog carnival about surgical blogs. It is open to all (surgeon, nurse, anesthesia, patient, etc) who have a surgical blog or article to submit.

Here is the catalog of past SurgeXperiences editions for your reading pleasure. If you wish to host a future edition, please contact Jeffrey who runs the show here.

SurgeXperiences 315 – Call for Submissions

Updated 3/2017-- all links (except to my own posts) removed as many no longer active. and it was easier than checking each one.

Education of a Knife will be the host for SurgeXperiences 315 (January 24th).  The author behind this blog describes himself this way: 

“A passionate 20 year old second year undergraduate medical student in Monash university Sunway Campus. Bite his teeth and tries to make the best out of his life. He writes occasionally and has strong aspirations for surgery.”

SurgeXperiences is a blog carnival about surgical blogs. It is open to all (surgeon, nurse, anesthesia, patient, etc) who have a surgical blog or article to submit.  You are encouraged to submit your surgery related posts.   The deadline for submissions to be included in the 315 edition is midnight on Friday, January 22nd.  Be sure to submit your post via this form.