September 2002:
As I am celebrating my third anniversary as Program Director and Editor of Medscape Surgery, I would like to reflect on one of the site's most popular features, "Ask the Experts." In January of this year, this feature was expanded, both in depth and breadth, and that process is ongoing. The "Ask the Experts" panel was expanded and now includes 10 members. In addition, I was given the green light to post more questions and responses.
"Ask the Experts" is a service that invites physicians to seek information, advice, and interpretation from a panel of leading experts in surgery. The aim is to provide a forum for physicians who treat surgical patients to interact with experts in the various subspecialties within the field. So far this year, 50 new questions and responses have been posted. Questions and responses are organized according to several categories: Colorectal, Biliary Tract, Carcinoma of the Appendix, Hernia, Esophagus/GERD, Trauma, and Miscellaneous. Click here to read a recently posted question and response, and you will quickly see why this service is so popular and successful. Click here to find the entire collection of questions and responses.
The success of "Ask the Experts" can be attributed to 2 important contingents: first, to those of you who have submitted questions -- some very practical, some thought-provoking, and some perplexing. You are the genesis; your questions are the raison d'être. I've heard from some of you only once and from others on a regular basis. And second, I can't say enough about the 10-member world-class panel of experts who often go well beyond the call of duty to share their experience, insights, and knowledge with the surgery community near and far. As you can imagine, many of their responses are written in the wee hours of the morning. I am indeed fortunate to work with such an esteemed and dedicated group.
A reader once wrote to me that some of the questions that we post are "stupid" and that "anyone would know the answers to those questions." I consulted several members of the panel about this, and the resounding feedback was that the only stupid question is the question that is never asked. The readers of Medscape Surgery represent a diverse group of physicians and surgeons. Some practice at leading medical centers and are at the top of their careers, others are just beginning or building surgical programs from the ground up in developing and underserved countries. The challenge of "Ask the Experts" is to span this diversity by bringing these communities, which have one thing in common, together for fruitful exchange. For not only do the readers who submit questions benefit from the responses, panel members report that they are uniquely challenged by new scenarios outlined in many of the questions. If you are a physician member and would like to participate in this unique forum with some of the world's leading experts in surgery, click here and send us your question.
As I am celebrating my third anniversary as Program Director and Editor of Medscape Surgery, I would like to reflect on one of the site's most popular features, "Ask the Experts." In January of this year, this feature was expanded, both in depth and breadth, and that process is ongoing. The "Ask the Experts" panel was expanded and now includes 10 members. In addition, I was given the green light to post more questions and responses.
"Ask the Experts" is a service that invites physicians to seek information, advice, and interpretation from a panel of leading experts in surgery. The aim is to provide a forum for physicians who treat surgical patients to interact with experts in the various subspecialties within the field. So far this year, 50 new questions and responses have been posted. Questions and responses are organized according to several categories: Colorectal, Biliary Tract, Carcinoma of the Appendix, Hernia, Esophagus/GERD, Trauma, and Miscellaneous. Click here to read a recently posted question and response, and you will quickly see why this service is so popular and successful. Click here to find the entire collection of questions and responses.
The success of "Ask the Experts" can be attributed to 2 important contingents: first, to those of you who have submitted questions -- some very practical, some thought-provoking, and some perplexing. You are the genesis; your questions are the raison d'être. I've heard from some of you only once and from others on a regular basis. And second, I can't say enough about the 10-member world-class panel of experts who often go well beyond the call of duty to share their experience, insights, and knowledge with the surgery community near and far. As you can imagine, many of their responses are written in the wee hours of the morning. I am indeed fortunate to work with such an esteemed and dedicated group.
A reader once wrote to me that some of the questions that we post are "stupid" and that "anyone would know the answers to those questions." I consulted several members of the panel about this, and the resounding feedback was that the only stupid question is the question that is never asked. The readers of Medscape Surgery represent a diverse group of physicians and surgeons. Some practice at leading medical centers and are at the top of their careers, others are just beginning or building surgical programs from the ground up in developing and underserved countries. The challenge of "Ask the Experts" is to span this diversity by bringing these communities, which have one thing in common, together for fruitful exchange. For not only do the readers who submit questions benefit from the responses, panel members report that they are uniquely challenged by new scenarios outlined in many of the questions. If you are a physician member and would like to participate in this unique forum with some of the world's leading experts in surgery, click here and send us your question.
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