Trauma Surgeon part 🦄 and sometimes a researcher free spirit with a wild heart 🦁 🦅
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We are surgeons and we operate beyond our knives and operating rooms.
Underneath our incisions is a world that we must be part of
#racism #gunviolence are public health issues
#ThisIsOurLane
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I see you 👀 @JJcolemanMD
No balance
“Surgery doesn’t stop my life and my life doesn’t stop surgery “
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1/ To all those students who did not Match
"YOU WILL BE JUST FINE"
I share my story to help shed some light
Each year not his Day I open an email I received in march 2003 sitting in my parents basement as an international medical grad "You Did Not Match"
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What an honor and heart ❤️ felt moment to have @Tucson_Police @TucsonFireDept drive by with sirens hot to honor all health care workers today @BannerUnivMed #TucsonProud @whatsuptucson we are all in this together @KVOA @CNN @TucsonStar @uarizona #TogetherWeRise #Covid_19
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Some of us are built from SCRATCH. No connections No Inheritance No Backups.
Just hard work sweat and hustle.
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Racism is difficult to define. Systemic racism goes unnoticed. If we are to move forward to a more inclusive profession we must work to understand and recognize the racism that lies deep in our foundations. Pictures speak 1000 words.
#STS2023
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I worked Xmas to have New Year’s Eve off ended up making one the most important incisions of my life
“Cut the cord” 😍😇🙋♂️
#BabyBella born New Years 2022 @ 3 am @BannerHealth NYE baby#3 (twins)
mom and baby are well
#Surgparenting
#IlooklikeASurgeon
#TwitterOfficial
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I’m American 🇺🇸 of Lebenese 🇱🇧 descent #ArabAmerican proud of @AmCollSurgeons for being inclusive and international
Son of an immigrants who never finished school now on the big stage because of their sacrifice
So many stories like this and more to come #ACSCC22
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In between your academic goals remember there’s a precious thing called life that has to be enjoyed
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@NRA help us find a solution because I have enough blood on my hands this blood is more yours than mine, this patient didn’t make it 😔 our passion is not driven by you rather the motivation to save a life #HelpUsSave #ThisISMyLane #thisIsOurLane @ThisIsOurLane @JosephSakran
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Do you need a Halloween costume ? Just got this in the mail!!!
#Reboa #ReboaUser #Halloween 🎃
I can’t anymore
😂😂😂😂 #SpiritHalloween
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Remember when surgeons used to sit and sleep at the bed sides of sick patients? 🤔🙄
Well they still do ... our superstar chief @T_S0N never left the bedside these are the moments that never leave us @AZTraumaCats @UofAZSurgery @UofAZSurgeryRes
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Congratulations to all that matched and especially to @KhaledQ_MD like many #IMG no fancy ceremony no envelopes ✉️ to open and often self made posts. It’s all wonderful and part of this journey we call life .
Opportunity is everything
#Match2023
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We can no longer remain silent physicians all over the world must speak up and stand together, We are one regardless of country of origin / religion / nationality
We are bound by an Oath -
Innocent victims of war regardless which side of the boarder they come from should never be murdered in a hospital.
"Every rule of international law is being shredded "
Too many children Too many of our own physicians and health care family. Too many of our patients
My heart is broken 😢💔💔💔💔💔
We are horrified by the recent Israeli bombing of Ahli Arab Hospital in #Gaza City, which was treating patients and hosting displaced Gazans. Hundreds of people have reportedly been killed. This is a massacre. It is absolutely unacceptable...
Community note
This was posted on the 17th without there being any conclusive evidence. On the 18th it was debunked. Missile being shot at Israel broke up and parts crashed into the hospital parking lot. Nowhere near 500 killed.
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#ChristmasEve and #Christmas are such special days regardless of your religion. Often you will find many of our Jewish /Hindu / Muslim colleagues covering the hospital for those that this holiday has meaning
For the gift of TIME is the best gift
#TeamMuslim @AZTraumaCats
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This is a @USNationalGuard service member deployed to a hospital for the #Covid_19 pandemic 😷. This is not an uncommon scene delivering food supporting safe and clean hospitals. If this image doesn’t resonate I’m not sure what will.
Thank you to all who serve. 🙏
#BeResponsible
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THIS IS HEART BREAKING
Exclusive: Nearly 600 — And Counting — US Health Workers Have Died Of COVID-19 – Kaiser Health News khn.org/news/exclusive-inves…
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Many Things to be Thankful For but most of all this little Boy and mom @Sarah1Joseph are doing well 🙏
Baby Ali Bellal Joseph 11/19/19
#DadMedTwitter #OnesieCollection
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Excited to finally get my Mullholland and Greenfields #Surgery Textbook 📗
I remember the first time I saw this book in 2003 I was a prelim resident and it was only given to categorical residents 😶 being an author within has so much meaning thanks to the Editors ✍️ #YesYouCan
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Dear Interns
Don’t be Afraid Just jump we will catch you. We were all there one day
#July1 #IBelieveICanFly
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NO WORDS @realDonaldTrump
Study Finds ‘Single Largest Driver’ of Coronavirus Misinformation: Trump - The New York Times nytimes.com/2020/09/30/us/po…
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Look mom (@najah33357277 ) We made it 🙌
“I didn’t get here alone” thanks all who supported and opened doors i never thought possible. Each of these steps has different meanings for each. As a first gen American 🇺🇸 foreign grad unmatched prelim & now @AmerSurg #AmerSurg22 ❤️ 🤗
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Congratualtions @JosephSakran well deserved promotion to Executive Vice Chair @hopkinssurgery
This is an epic uphill climb- were all witnesses my friend Be Proud of yourself.
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1/ #Match2022 As many medical students go to sleep not knowing what the future holds remember it will all be ok and this too will pass. I remember not matching that Monday in March 2003. As an FMG I was in my parents basement there was no fancy ceremony no envelope no one
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We are anti-bullet holes in people And if we are biased, the bias is toward counseling our patients to reduce their risk of firearm injury and toward evidence-based solutions to the public health crisis that firearm injury is @nytimes @ThisIsOurLane
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The Cost of #Success:
Late Nights
Early Mornings
Fewer Friends
Feeling Overwhelmed
Questioning your Sanity
Being Misunderstood
Loving what you do
Hard work
Don't Give Up, Its Worth it
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Hi #MedTwitter! My name is Baby Ali and I’m 2 living with my parents I’ll be applying to general surgery in the #Match2045
I’m looking forward to connecting and matching
The Doctor is in ❤️🩹🩺🧿 😂
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2005: “It’s all crystalloids.”
2010: “No, 1:1:1 is the holy grail.”
2015: “TXA for everyone.”
2018: “Whole blood back to the future.”
2020: “It’s the endothelium!”
2023: “AI will solve resuscitation.”
2025: “Actually… it’s the platelets.”
Funny how the more we learn, the smaller the battlefield becomes
and all roads keep leading back to surgeon scientists who still practice clinical medicines
#Trauma
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Fellow 2009 - Attending 2021
All journeys have secret destinations of which we are unaware. The only impossible journey is the one you never begin. Keep moving stay humble work hard and be kind.
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To all my Surgical peeps how often do you deal with bloody hands ? I double glove 🧤 rotate the gloves and still get this after most open cases ? This isn’t ok, we been trying to find solutions #Haylard keeps telling me it’s us. Do others deal with this ? Would love some help?
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Almost don’t believe it. What an honor to become a Fellow @AmerSurg #AmericanSurgicalAssociation most thanks to all who supported with nothing to gain.
#DontStopDreaming #TwitterOfficial #NoPassword
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8 years ago on this day I was @BannerUnivMed with all @UofAZTrauma team caring for congresswoman @GabbyGiffords who was shot #Tucson today I sit proud @uscapitol and watch @GiffordsCourage when #HR8 is being introduced by @GabbyGiffords #ThisIsOurLane #courage @ThisIsOurLane
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We have not taken out a #GallBladder after 10 pm in over two years
The surgeons are much happier and the patients are doing even better 😁
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Career in Nutshell:
1) can’t wait until I’m included in meetings and committees
2) look at me ma I made it to all these important meetings
3) I will do anything legal and several illegal things to avoid these meetings
#careeradvice
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Today we lost one of ours does @nra still think we should stay in our lane? Maybe it’s time to realize #ThisisOurLane it’s always been our lane and every life lost is on all of us regardless of the side your on. #ImSorryTamara
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There is one thing clear about our community:
#ThisIsOurLane
@JosephSakran @DocsDemand @shannonrwatts @MomsDemand #Docs4GunSense
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Death is reality and a destination we all face, losing Mom has been the ultimate sacrifice for a mother’s love is like no other and there is nothing that replaces it.
#eidmubarak to all those celebrating the journey of Hajj a task all Muslims must complete.
This Eid is the hardest, mom got her Heavenly Hajj, we wish her a blessed Hajj and pray god continues to keep her close.
Holidays were moms favorite, she made them special for all around her through her favorite past time cooking for everyone. Even to her last breath she held us together and left this world with all of us around her.
Death’s lesson is like no other and nothing we can put in words. Only those who have faced it understand, the values mom has left in our family hold us together but also have taught us that this is where the line is drawn. Family is not defined by blood or certificates but a great love that can’t be put into words. Allah has his reasons, and we must accept them, but this does not lesson the pain of each day a struggle beyond words. We Love you Mom and your legacy is beyond what words can describe.
حج مبرور و سعي مشكور
زهرة من السماء عادت إلى الجنة لكنها تركت عطرها في حياتنا
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My First official #TWEET with the blue verified badge. Thank you @Twitter @premiumbusiness for the authenticity check.
#AcademicTwitter #SoMe #SomeGoodNews
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22 years ago I didn’t match there was no computerized soap. Today I delivered a Harland Root named lecture. It was An absolute honor being @UTHealthSASurg with some of the greats i have always looked up to
We learn more when we teach.
Things happen for reasons
#Believe
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Dear Trauma Surgeons
36 Fr chest tubes should be considered a sin and they should be banned from shelves 😳😎
-all your patients
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Single most important cart/tools in the #TraumaBay can’t thank the staff who turn over our rooms enough. ❤️ pulse of the bay @AZTraumaCats #FridayNight
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WIth one sweep of the gallbladder with endoscopic Kittner you could do the same thing :)
#JustSaying
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Congrats to @AdilHaiderMD first #Muslim president of @AcademicSurgery Love the #grapejuice gift #culturalappropriation #NationalComplimentDay #ASC2018
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This isn't about making women stronger. Women are already strong, it's about changing the way the world perceives that strength. never doubt that you are valuable and powerful, pursue and achieve your own dreams." #IlookLikeASurgeon @AZTraumaCats #XmasEve #Trauma @BannerUnivMed
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A trauma surgeon for 40 years (and avid hunter), I am dismayed that we remain paralyzed over preventive measures. There have been 18 school shootings in 2018, when one would be too many: This cannot remain a political issue it is clearly an issue of common sense. Ernest Moore, MD
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I didn’t match this time of the year wasn’t a happy time for me
This story always has a new meaning this time of the year to all those who don’t Match.
#Match2023
You will be fine 👇
1/ To all those students who did not Match
"YOU WILL BE JUST FINE"
I share my story to help shed some light
Each year not his Day I open an email I received in march 2003 sitting in my parents basement as an international medical grad "You Did Not Match"
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Another successful @EAST_TRAUMA meeting excellent science and great times with the work family #East2024
Plans already in place for #East2025 in #Tucson you don’t want to miss this one
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No healthcare provider should be seeing patients in any emergency setting or elective clinic or pre-op area without masks the appropriate masks as a matter fact the appropriate #PPE #PPENow
Limit exposure protect yourselves. We’re Susceptible to giving and catching #coronavirus
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I can’t express how proud I am of all the amazing things @JosephSakran is doing and has done. he has raised our profession on so many platforms in the fight against #GunViolence @ThisIsOurLane #ThisIsOurLane
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There is only one thing that makes call better … when you do it with family
Welcome aboard @StanleyOkosun the three of us did fellowship together 13 years ago at @shocktrauma and here we are together
#FellowshipoftheSun
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Support @JosephSakran as he goes on @CNN and joins @HardballChris tonight to represent #physicians #ThisisMyLane @NRA
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Are you home with a pack of #N95 feeling safe? Our teams are standing in the front lines without masks caring for trauma patients who could be infected or carriers. Share or Donate your excess masks happy to work with anyone who has some to share DM me @whatsuptucson #PPE
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Thanks @Sarah1Joseph for the on call lunch #مقلوبة #Makloubeh which means “upside down” traditional Lebanese dish😇 fried eggplant meat and rice with carrots and onions
the final piece of the recipe is the flip @djkhaled
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When I told my son @JoeBiden @KamalaHarris won this happened 😁 #SoundOn #AmericaElection
@chrissyteigen
#NaNaNaNaNaNaNaNaHeyHeyHeyGOODBYE
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@NRA no one is asking you to switch sides just switch lanes #ThisIsMyLane to the operating room a lane I wish sometimes I didn’t have to walk #ThisISOurLane @ThisIsOurLane @nowthisnews
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Does it get any lower? go after a teenage highschool student who survived #MassShooting less than a year ago ? Tis the season @NRA why not show how you are helping victims like @davidhogg111 find solutions! @ThisIsOurLane @Emma4Change #NeverAgain #ThisIsOurLane @JosephSakran
It’s always satisfying when an anti-gunner reveals just how uneducated they are about firearms. Recently, this distinction goes to David Hogg, who has repeatedly called for a federal tax on firearms and ammunition — which he must not realize already exists.nraila.org/articles/20181206…
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This one hits a little different
we started this journey to change dogma in 2013 and here we finally thanks @traumadoctors for the #MIT to all the centers who participated and @JTraumAcuteSurg for considering. Most of all to the residents and fellows who helped push #BIG forward
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THIS IS OUR LANE
We Stand on Behalf of All Of Us
@JosephSakran @laurie_punch @JJcolemanMD @ThisIsOurLane
#2020GunSafety #ThisIsOurLane @MSNBC @KamalaHarris @craigmelvin
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#BabyAli has a message
Wash Your hands
Stay Home 🏡
Social distancing
#FlattenTheCuve
#coronavirus
If your gonna listen to anyone listen to this guy 😬
#helpushelpyou
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Had the honor of having dinner with Dr Llirijana Haxhibeqiri and Dr Dafina Mahmutaj first female Cardiac Surgeon and First female General Surgeon from Kosovo both pioneers for woman in surgery in their country so many amazing stories #ILookLikeASurgeon #MedTwitter
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On the occasion of Ramadan, I wish everyone a Happy Ramadan
It’s a time of giving and
providing for the less fortunate
purifying ones connection with God
Giving Charity
Feeding the Poor
Being Grateful
Fasting
Forgiveness
#RamadanKareem
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Powerful words on the other side of #medicine “Every surgeon carries about him a little cemetery, in which from time to time he goes to pray, a cemetery of bitterness and regret, of which he seeks the reason for certain of his failures."
La philosophie de la Chirurgie.
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In the last 72 hours I did 0 operation made 0 #RVU and actually used academic fund to cover travel which had no abstracts/ppt but yet my soul tells me this will be the most I have ever done for #Trauma patients @NTIResearch @ACSTrauma @rochelleami9 @JosephSakran #ZPDD @injurydr
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and anyone looking for help support or just someone to talk to don't hesitate to reach out DM and ill share my cell phone. #MatchDay2020 #unmatched
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Every residnt and fellow should watch this a few times a year before their trauma rotation.
Great work @BehindTheKnife
Resident 1: This video is the hotness 🌶️
Resident 2: Yeah, it's fire 🔥
See for yourself ➡️ full-length trauma laparotomy video from our Trauma Video Atlas (out this fall), courtesy of @clarkninam @Kniery_Bird @georgoff @mcclellanjm
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Teachers first take your hand
Then Open your mind
Finally Set us free
It was an honor today being the Annual @shocktrauma Julio lecture experience of a life time to come home with this honor where I trained.
“Understanding the Illusion of Equity”
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Mom taught us a lot about life and It’s been 1 year since her last lesson she taught us. #Death
There are really no words to explain words like never again. She is missed everyday, only God has the answers to why. We now only live with her legacy each day by the examples she set upon us. We strive to reach her touch here on earth. The tears don’t go away the feeling when she held us or the sound of her voice hurts to think about.
Thank you to all who keep us in your prayers who reach out to give back what she gave. Rest Mom you never did because you always cared about everyone besides yourself
we will try to take it from here
❤️
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I don’t take selfies but when I do…
One of the greatest honors and most impactful committee in any organization the program committee
@EAST_TRAUMA
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Proud moment look forward to working along with my colleagues as part of the Medical Retrieval team for @NASA @BoeingSpace
@BannerHealth @BannerUnivMed @AZTraumaCats
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Read this 👇 and read it again #COVIDー19 #COVIDActNow
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This one feels different. This committee taught me so much and the work was gratifying on so many levels.
Thanks to the members and co chairs. @tzakrison @esthertsengmd and special thanks @EAST_TRAUMA
#East4All
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Used to read him books before sleep now he reads them to me to let me sleep 😴. Parenting is hard but a blessing in so many ways
#SurgeonDad #TraumaLife
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In 2015, @FaisalShahJehan walked into my office as a medical student from Pakistan, looking for an opportunity
He joined the fellowship of the ☀️ @AZTraumaCats , became one of our most productive fellows, went on to crush GS training Surgical oncology fellowship and mastered advanced robotic skills.
He’s one of 30+ international fellows who’ve gone on to change American surgery.
Full circle moments like this remind me our legacy is mentorship, opportunity, and opening doors. Proud to call him a colleague today
The highest standard is when your students set a new one.
We’re excited to welcome Dr. Jehan to #UofAZSurgery! He joins us from Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, bringing expertise in HPB/gastrointestinal cancers, with a focus on minimally invasive & robotic surgery. Welcome back to Tucson, Dr. Jehan! 🔗 bit.ly/46Ne8Ws
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Really excited to be sitting at the @IntuitiveSurg DAVINCI #Robot before starting my open case today 😳😂🤭
Anyone else want to join my club #SurgeonsWhoOperateStanding #SurgeonsWhoScrub
🦖 open surgery is still an art 🖼️
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Same pic this time in selfie mode 😳😂
There are selfies and there are selfies 🤩
#AAST2023
Congratulations to the inaugural class of the AAST Leadership Academy!
The inception of the Academy marks a significant milestone in our commitment to nurturing and empowering the leaders in the field of trauma and acute care surgery.
Through this initiative, we aim to continually foster professional growth and facilitate invaluable networking prospects for our esteemed members, ensuring a bright future for leadership in this vital medical discipline.
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What an honor to be selected @AZChapterACS president elect. Thanks @RossFGoldberg Looking forward to working with Dr. Feinstein and assuring DEI into our future members and leaders.
And congrats to our newly elected President-Elect @topknife!!
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Happens to me all the time from patients and colleagues....
But Where Are You From
Me: Toledo Ohio
No but like where is ur family from ohhh
Me: Maumee Ohio
But no ur ancestors ?
Me: Planet Earth .... my grandpa came to the USA in 1920 🤔🙋🏾♂️
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Congratulations @KhaledQ_MD @AZTraumaCats fellow who took a leap of faith to join our family and matched in Surgery #Match2023. We are excited for your career forward and too carry the flame 🔥.
Once given a 🤚 hand always lend your 🤚 back to help others
#FellowshipOfTheSun
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