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Dear Colleagues: I enclose below a message I sent to my partner, Dr. Bassem ElHassan. I am lucky to have the resource of this Pac-Man for revision surgery, as he is by far the most talented revision surgeon I have ever known. In addition to this, he has a character disorder known as “Panglossian” (named after Dr. Pangloss from Voltaire’s Candide, which describes someone who believes that "everything is for the best in this best of all possible worlds," even in the face of ext

Dear Colleagues: Do you wonder about the skills you may need going forward? While you are all excellent doctors and surgeons, the skills required in general business are as important in the business of healthcare. And healthcare is a BIG BUSINESS . Below is a screenshot of a lecture given by Douglas Warner (yes, he is my brother) to the Fuqua Business School class at Duke University. Douglas has extensive experience in business, having worked for the start-up Shutterfly, serv

Dear Colleagues: Enclosed is a great LinkedIn Post from Eric Bricker. He is a healthcare economist and offers insight into an analysis done by McKinsey & Company on profit in different healthcare sectors. This is not only interesting, but an example of the great posts Mr. Bricker makes on LinkedIn. I’d recommend you follow him for similar insights. The consulting firm McKinsey & Company published a study analyzing the profit of various sectors within the US healthcare industr

Dear Colleagues: I’d like to bring to your attention a novel meeting which blends innovation with entrepreneurship. The Inaugural Boston Orthopedic Technology Summit will be held May 15-16 at The Cambridge Innovation Center. Here is the official announcement from the organizers: https://tinyurl.com/tdk95weu +++ What happens when the world’s top clinical minds meet the boldest MedTech founders? From Harvard Medical School and Mass General Hospital to Silicon Valley —At th