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Harassment in surgery: line in the sand Open

R C Grossman · 2022

Over the last few years, the #MeToo movement has brought attention to the long-standing culture of abuse in hierarchical organisations, and surgery is no exception. Harassment and abuse of any form should cease to be tolerated. This moment…

Overestimating women’s representation in medicine: a survey of medical professionals’ estimates and their(un)willingness to support gender equality initiatives Open

Christopher T. Begeny, R C Grossman, Michelle K. Ryan · 2022

Objective Amidst growing numbers of women in certain areas of medicine (eg, general practice/primary care), yet their continued under-representation in others (eg, surgical specialties), this study examines (1) whether medical professional…

A call for action: time to eradicate sexual assault and harassment from the surgical workplace Open

Victoria Pegna, R C Grossman, Tamzin Cuming · 2022

The Bulletin has ignited the conversation around sexual assault in surgery, resulting in an avalanche of personal testimonies and calls for action to change surgical culture. Victoria Pegna et al detail the steps they have planned to tackl…

Pre‐operative SARS‐CoV‐2 testing, isolation, vaccination and remote prehabilitation – the road to ‘COVID‐19 secure’ elective surgery Open

M. Charlesworth, R C Grossman · 2021

Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, healthcare institutions have implemented measures aimed at reducing the risk of nosocomial SARS-CoV-2 transmission, as well as the risk of operating on infected patients. With limited available…

Social media matters Open

R C Grossman · 2021

Assistant Aneel Bhangu delivered the BJS lecture to the Swedish Surgical Society, where he discussed the experiences of the COVIDSurg Collaborative (Fig. 1).The COVIDSurg Collaborative, based at the University of Birmingham, broke the Guin…

429 Preoperative Risk Assessment In Elective Colorectal Patients Open

Cristina Cernei, R C Grossman, Owen Bodger, J. T. Williams, Colin C. Pritchard , et al. · 2021

Introduction Cardiopulmonary Exercise Testing (CPET) and the Colorectal Physiology and Operative Severity Score (CR-POSSUM) are increasingly used in colorectal surgical practice to risk-stratify patients preoperatively and for planning lev…

Social media matters Open

R C Grossman · 2021

The future of surgery is bright Open

R C Grossman · 2021

Our Guest Editor celebrates 30 years of WinS and looks to the future of the profession.

This month on Twitter Open

R C Grossman · 2021

This month on Twitter, April Open

R C Grossman · 2021

Social media in surgery: evolving role in research communication and beyond Open

R C Grossman, Olivia Sgarbură, Julie Hallet, Kjetil Søreide · 2021

Beyond the hashtag: describing and understanding the full impact of the #BJSConnect tweet chat May 2019 Open

Graham Mackenzie, R C Grossman, Julio Mayol · 2020

Background Twitter engagement between surgeons provides opportunities for international discussion of research and clinical practice. Understanding how surgical tweet chats work is important at a time when increasing reliance is being plac…

Choosing the new normal for surgical education using alternative platforms Open

Deborah S. Keller, R C Grossman, D. C. Winter · 2020

This month on Twitter Open

R C Grossman · 2020

Author response to: Comment on: Randomized controlled trial of plain English and visual abstracts for dissemination surgical research via social media Open

Stephen J. Chapman, R C Grossman, Michael Fitzpatrick, R Brady · 2020

The correspondence by Pringle and colleagues was received with much interest 1 .We agree that more consideration as to how we translate the context, limitations and impact of research studies in visual or adjunctive formats is needed 2 .Th…

The Way to Man's Heart Is through the Stomach Open

R C Grossman, Rohin Francis · 2019

Organ systems do not exist in a vacuum. However, in an era of increasingly specialized medicine, the focus is often on the organ system alone. Many symptoms are associated with differential diagnoses from upper gastrointestinal (GI) and ca…

This month on Twitter Open

R C Grossman · 2019

Randomized controlled trial of plain English and visual abstracts for disseminating surgical research via social media Open

Stephen J. Chapman, R C Grossman, Michael Fitzpatrick, R Brady · 2019

Background Patients are increasingly taking an active role in the design and delivery of surgical research. Public communication of results should also be encouraged, but this is often limited to non-expert commentary. This study assessed …

This month on Twitter Open

R C Grossman · 2019

This month on Twitter Open

R C Grossman · 2019

This month on Twitter Open

R C Grossman · 2019

This month on Twitter Open

R C Grossman · 2019

This month on Twitter Open

R C Grossman · 2019

impressions, 553 retweets and 849 likes.BJS was delighted to welcome Cirurgia Geral e Trauma HC-FMUSP from Sao Paulo, Brazil (@geral_trauma_HC) as follower number 20 000.Vollenbrock et al.'s study on the use of MRI for the assessment of re…

This month on Twitter Open

R C Grossman · 2019

This month on Twitter Open

R C Grossman · 2019

bjsurgery generated 367 600 impressions, 954 retweets and 1400 likes in January, and reached 19 000 followers.The January issue attracted some thoughtful comments.@JamesAshcroftMD shared Hüttner et al.'s systematic review of RCTs in pancre…

Tweets of the month – January 2019 Open

R C Grossman · 2019

Twitter this month was simultaneously a link to the past and a look to the future.@juliomayol tweeted some colorectal classics from the BJS vault 1,2 .@MichelAdamina reported Ronan O'Connell's mention of the 2017 BJS Special Issue on Surgi…

Does l-Methylfolate Supplement Methylphenidate Pharmacotherapy in Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder? Open

Craig Surman, Atilla Ceranoglu, Carrie Vaudreuil, Brittany Albright, Mai Uchida , et al. · 2018

Purpose/Background Interventions for attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) may be inadequate for some patients. There is evidence that supplementation with l -methylfolate augments antidepressant agent effects and thus might also…

The surgical personality: does it matter? Open

R C Grossman · 2018

Responding to recently published research Into surgeons’ personalities, Rebecca Grossman argues that the notion of a ‘surgical personality’ may be illusory, and counterproductive for recruitment.

Mild Traumatic Brain Injury and Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder in Young Student Athletes Open

Joseph Biederman, Leah Feinberg, James Chan, Bamidele O. Adeyemo, K. Yvonne Woodworth , et al. · 2015

A recent meta-analysis documented a significant statistical association between mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) (Adeyemo et al., 2014), but the direction of this effect was unclear. In…

Reduced Renal Methylarginine Metabolism Protects against Progressive Kidney Damage Open

James Tomlinson, Ben Caplin, Olga Boruc, Claire Bruce-Cobbold, Pedro R. Cutillas , et al. · 2015

Nitric oxide (NO) production is diminished in many patients with cardiovascular and renal disease. Asymmetric dimethylarginine (ADMA) is an endogenous inhibitor of NO synthesis, and elevated plasma levels of ADMA are associated with poor o…

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