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Continue ReadingSurgeonMasters Founder Jeff Smith, MD, promoting surgeon wellness at the upcoming 2019 AAOS Annual Meeting
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If you are like me and many of the physicians I know, you’re often attending conferences in spring and fall. Travel can be stressful and often we
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It is well known these days that burnout is a widespread point of discussion in the medical community – especially among surgeons. As much as we talk
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Sacramento, CA., February 17, 2019 - Brent Jackson, MD, FACS, is named Chief Medical Officer at Mercy General Hospital, Sacramento, California. Dr.
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Pump the brakes on your week and take 10 minutes to make your life as a surgeon just a little better… In this episode of the mini-podcast, Jeff
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Note: This is part one of an ongoing blog series on burnout vs. moral injury. This first installment dives into moral injury as a concept and how it
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