Volume 78 Number 1
The Lung Microbiome During Cocktail Hour
At a recent family celebration, I found myself in conversation with a cousin about his research interests: the lung microbiome. The lung microbiome? I asked him to elaborate…
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Practicing What I Teach
Before every lecture, I practice my talk for my husband to get his feedback. Over the years, he has picked up quite a bit himself—from perioperative lactation safety to non-operating room anesthesia in the outpatient setting. But I think his favorite was the time I practiced my active listening and empathy talk before the 2024 Post-Graduate Assembly.
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Safety While Traveling: Carbon Monoxide Poisoning
Carbon monoxide is a true silent killer—odorless, colorless and tasteless. It claims over 1,000 lives each year in the United States. This is a timely issue with holiday and mid-winter vacations right around the corner.
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Women Pioneers
For the past 20 years, women have comprised roughly half of all medical school classes in the United States. Yet only 36% of today’s full-time academic anesthesiologists in this country are women—and even fewer women hold leadership roles within the specialty. Here in the 21st century, the gender gap in anesthesiology still persists.
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