The surgical newsletter, by surgeons
We screen the surgical literature every day and cut each paper to its bottom line and key points. The five that matter reach your inbox, free.
Across 17 solid-organ cancers, robotic surgery was associated with fewer conversions to open surgery than straight-stick minimally invasive surgery.
Updated recommendations for acute appendicitis focus on better surgical outcomes and patient selection.
Every day, thousands of new papers enter PubMed.
Medicine publishes faster than anyone can read. Surgery is in there somewhere.
We keep the surgical ones.
Every journal is screened. Only papers that matter to general and visceral surgeons stay.
Then we sort them into 13 fields.
From HPB to wounds, each paper lands where you would look for it. Each field is a newsletter of its own, with every new paper.
We pick the five that matter today.
From any field, not one per field. Today two came from emergencies, none from endocrine.
And cut each one into stitches.
Small, separate, each one holds: the bottom line, the key points, the limits and the source.
Five papers. Five minutes.
That is the Daily Selection: the five, each in stitches, in one email.
Then it comes to you. Every day.
Nothing to search, nothing to bookmark, no app to open. It is in your inbox when you are ready to read.
Published today
Straight from this morning’s selection. This is exactly how they read in your inbox.
Achievable-care benchmarks were 0.2% for serious intraoperative events and 1.0% for severe 30-day complications.
In hypotensive trauma, PIV access succeeds in about two-thirds of attempts, but the odds fall with each repeat.
Across 17 solid-organ cancers, robotic surgery was associated with fewer conversions to open surgery.
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