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Editorials

The SVS offers a collection of editorials written for Vascular Specialist by Dr. Malachi G. Sheahan III, Medical Editor. The editorials cover a variety of topics, including the Main Residency Match and prescription opioids.

Recent Issues

August 2020: On Professionals and Professionalism
May 2020: COVID-19: How to Be a Doctor at the End of the World
March 2020: The Replication Crisis is Here​
January 2020: Am I My Brother's Keeper? A Skeptic's Call for Peer Support in Vascular Surgery
September 2019: I Am America's Top Doctor
June 2019: Who Won the Bouffant War?
April 2019: The Paclitaxel Paradox
March 2019: The Shadow Curriculum of U.S. Medical Schools
November 2018: Death of a Sales Pitch
September 2018: An Open Letter to Our Hospital Consultants
August 2018: I Want You to Do My Job
May 2018: OPIOIDS AND US: Designed to Fail
March 2018: I Am Not Your Burnout Expert
November 2017: It's Time for Us to Talk About Guns
September 2017: Gods and Monsters
July 2017: Here There Be Dragons...
January 2017: Our Perfect Match?

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