Preschoolers in Surgery for a Mouthful of Cavities

By CATHERINE SAINT LOUIS Published: March 6, 2012 SEATTLE — In the surgical wing of the Center for Pediatric Dentistry at Seattle Children’s Hospital, Devon Koester, 2 ½ years old, was resting last month in his mother’s arms as an anesthesiologist held a bubble-gum-scented mask over his face to put him under. The doctors then took X-rays, which showed that … Read more

Burned Out? How Doctors Recover Their Spark

From Medscape Today News – Shelly M. Reese When Steve Hyman, MD, from Nashville, Tennessee, looks back,he doesn’t like the person he used to be. “I was a lot meaner then,” says Hyman, an anesthesiologist. “I was a lot less tolerant. I had a chronic depression and I didn’t know what the problem was.” Attributing … Read more