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Jon van Heerden, MD
Rochester, Minn

Arch Surg. 2001;136:310.

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The authors of this study conclude that although laparoscopic colorectal surgery may be good for the patient, it may, in fact, be bad for the operating surgeon(s)! What a provocative, refreshing, unique, but perhaps not new, idea.

It is a well-known fact that individual physicians have vastly different reactions to stress, with "emergency" catecholamine release being much more prevalent in surgical vs nonsurgical personnel. This global difference between specialties was emphasized by the British surgeon Sir Ian Aird more than 50 years ago in an analysis of the hobbies of doctors—surgeons competed in the Olympics, whereas psychiatrists collected butterflies. Who is to quibble as to who is the wiser?

What is less well known, or certainly less often discussed in open forum, is the fact that there is currently a generation of practicing surgeons (they could be termed, gray-haired, experienced, or non-Nintendo) who . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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