Taking a Chance or Playing It Safe: Reframing Risk Assessment Within the Surgeon’s Comfort Zone.
The purpose of this study was to explore how risk is perceived and experienced by the surgeon and how risk is actively managed in individual practice.
Coaching Surgeons paper in Annals of Surgery
Coaching faces unique challenges in the context of a powerful surgical culture that values the portrayal of competency and instills the value of surgical autonomy. This study suggests that hanging on to these tightly held values of competency and autonomy is actually limiting the ways, and extent to which, surgeons can improve their practice.
Coaching Surgeons: Is Culture Limiting Our Ability to Improve?
Mutabdzic D, Mylopoulos M, Murnaghan ML, Patel P, Zilbert N, Seemann N, Regehr G, Moulton CA. Ann Surg. 2015 Aug;262(2):213-6.
Ann Surg. 2015 Aug;262(2):213-6.