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Elliot Servais, MD, FACS

@ElliotServaisMD

2 years

“Daddy your beeper was going off earlier upstairs…I stopped it”

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Elliot Servais, MD, FACS

@ElliotServaisMD

4 years

@SyedAAhmad5 And I still see people posting on SoMe that “elective” means cosmetic surgery, etc. To be clear - this means patients with early cancers and other potentially life threatening surgical diseases are being delayed!!!

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Elliot Servais, MD, FACS

@ElliotServaisMD

2 years

This remains my favorite pre-operative email I’ve received from a patient..😁 #tssmn #medtwitter

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Elliot Servais, MD, FACS

@ElliotServaisMD

3 years

Residents: I cannot stress this enough… Your job is not to protect the attending Your job is to protect the patient Yes you should call the attending, yes you should wake them up. (By the way - if you protect the patient ➡️ you are protecting the attending) #MedTwitter #MedEd

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Elliot Servais, MD, FACS

@ElliotServaisMD

2 years

RVU based physician compensation models serve neither the patient nor the physician. Only the hospital business entity benefits Change my mind…

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Elliot Servais, MD, FACS

@ElliotServaisMD

9 months

The intern suctioning while I try to operate 😁 #MedTwitter

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Elliot Servais, MD, FACS

@ElliotServaisMD

1 year

Just a reminder to my surgeon colleagues…data show patients prefer surgeons in scrubs as compared to other attire in both ambulatory & inpatient settings So save your money on those fancy suits! 😁 #MedTwitter #SoMe4Surgery @SAGES_Updates #surgery

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Elliot Servais, MD, FACS

@ElliotServaisMD

3 years

A rarely discussed skill required to be a surgeon is the ability to ignore an itch on your face for an extended period of time… #SoMe4Surgery #medtwitter

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Elliot Servais, MD, FACS

@ElliotServaisMD

2 years

A lung mass is >3cm A lung mass is >3cm A lung mass is >3cm A lung mass is >3cm A lung mass is >3cm A lung mass is >3cm <3cm = nodule You now know one of my pet peeves (there may be many) #tssmn #MedTwitter

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Elliot Servais, MD, FACS

@ElliotServaisMD

1 month

Craziest thing I’ve seen in chest Patient transferred to us after chest tube placed at outside ED for spon pneumothorax 1 week prior VATS for persistent air leak & found finger tip of glove embedded in lung No prior chest procedures ED procedure note - no issues noted 🤯

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Elliot Servais, MD, FACS

@ElliotServaisMD

1 year

What’s the most difficult surgical skill to teach? (Not concept, judgement, etc…intraoperative technical skill) Is there a skill that just cannot be taught? @TomVargheseJr @DavidCookeMD @DissanaikeMD @TsengJennifer @juliomayol @STS_CTsurgery @SAGES_Updates @steven_stain

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Elliot Servais, MD, FACS

@ElliotServaisMD

3 years

It’s a fine line between being a confident surgeon and being an arrogant surgeon. You can be confident and still take advice You can be confident and recognize your own fallibility You can be confident and learn something new every single day. #MedTwitter #SoMe4Surgery #tssmn

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Elliot Servais, MD, FACS

@ElliotServaisMD

4 years

As a resident & CT fellow I would look at this image every once in a while to drill the anatomy from the mediastinoscopy view. Maybe some of you will also find it helpful. @TSRA_official @ThoracicStudent #tssmn #Thoracic #surgicalanatomy #MedTwitter #SoMe4Surgery

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Elliot Servais, MD, FACS

@ElliotServaisMD

4 years

Major pet peeves is when a surgeon *blames* a resident/fellow for an OR complication. It may not be overt, but even mentioning "the fellow was doing it" during M&M is not relevant or appropriate. That's your case, the fellow is an extension of you. #tssmn #MedTwitter #surgery

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Elliot Servais, MD, FACS

@ElliotServaisMD

1 year

Surgery is tough Surgery can be stressful Surgery is a sacrifice But I get to tell patients and their families “we got it all and your loved one is doing great” Makes it all worth it and nothing will ever change my mind! #tssmn #surgery #SoMe4Surgery #MedTwitter

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Elliot Servais, MD, FACS

@ElliotServaisMD

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For many surgeons, the most malignant part of our lifelong training is not residency, but our own self-criticism, doubt, and unforgiving self-expectations.

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Elliot Servais, MD, FACS

@ElliotServaisMD

3 months

@AshleyGWinter Hope it’s nothing and you feel better soon! But clean your bellybutton just in case

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Elliot Servais, MD, FACS

@ElliotServaisMD

3 years

If your patient asks whether they should consider a second opinion the answer should always be yes. And you should help them get it. #medtwitter #SoMe4Surgery

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Elliot Servais, MD, FACS

@ElliotServaisMD

1 year

Surgery trainees… What’s the name of this instrument? What’s it used for? When might you realistically use it today? @TSRA_official @ThoracicStudent #MedTwitter #SoMe4Surgery @rbarbosa91 #surgery

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Elliot Servais, MD, FACS

@ElliotServaisMD

1 year

Nice to see these guidelines. Interesting that partial fundo is recommended over floppy Nissen.🤔 Likely because few *actually* do a true floppy Nissen. Here’s the original concept…a bougie between the goose and the wrap. Raise your hand if you do that…exactly what I thought!

SAGES is in Long Beach in 2025!

@SAGES_Updates

1 year

Our new GERD guideline has been published in Surgical Endoscopy and online. Congratulations to all who work on this guideline. @bslatermd

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Elliot Servais, MD, FACS

@ElliotServaisMD

7 months

Mid-career surgeons - how do you know if you’re technically any good? How do you get better? Share your strategies… #surgeoncoaching #lifelonglearner @AATSED @STS_CTsurgery @SAGES_Updates @SurgJournal @AmBdSurg @TomVargheseJr @juliomayol @pturnermd #SoMe4Surgery #surgery

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Elliot Servais, MD, FACS

@ElliotServaisMD

2 years

Today someone kindly informed me that my surgical cap had completely messed up my hair. I had not worn a surgical cap today

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Elliot Servais, MD, FACS

@ElliotServaisMD

2 months

Next generation (DV5) robot in the wild… Sound on for a narrated look

Elliot Servais, MD, FACS

@ElliotServaisMD

2 months

Highlighting features on DV5 that have impressed me so far during my early experience on the system: 1. 4K vision is awesome 2. Head-in menu control w/o taking head out of console 3. Force feedback - "haptics"! 4. Digital swap makes instrument swap seamless.

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Elliot Servais, MD, FACS

@ElliotServaisMD

2 months

Highlighting features on DV5 that have impressed me so far during my early experience on the system: 1. 4K vision is awesome 2. Head-in menu control w/o taking head out of console 3. Force feedback - "haptics"! 4. Digital swap makes instrument swap seamless.

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Elliot Servais, MD, FACS

@ElliotServaisMD

4 years

Men - read this. Take aways: 1. Gender inequality hurts both women AND men 2. Breaking the cycle is our responsibility 3. Don't be a bystander - this requires active allyship, conscious effort. #heforshe #EqualityForAll

HeForShe

@HeForShe

4 years

"The cycle must be broken, and that work lies squarely on men. Men are the only ones who can become better men; women cannot do that work for us."

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Elliot Servais, MD, FACS

@ElliotServaisMD

4 months

Wow! I had never heard this quote before, but what an incredible conceptualization of the “art of surgery” 🫡 @TomVargheseJr

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Elliot Servais, MD, FACS

@ElliotServaisMD

1 year

This direct condemnation of the Presidential Address @STS_CTsurgery #STS2023 is one small step. It is a sad and sobering reminder of how far we have yet to go.

The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

@STS_CTsurgery

1 year

A Statement from STS President Thomas MacGillivray and the STS Board of Directors regarding the #STS2023 Presidential Address:

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Elliot Servais, MD, FACS

@ElliotServaisMD

1 year

Fluorescent imaging can be valuable during surgery to assess perfusion. In this case of robotic esophagectomy, in a pt w/multiple redo hiatal hernia and fundoplication operations, indocyanine green w/infrared imaging helps confirm gastric conduit perfusion (time mark 3:42).

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Elliot Servais, MD, FACS

@ElliotServaisMD

1 year

Where is the Twitter dislike button when I need it?!? To be clear - surgeons are doctors first, who also know how to operate. That surgeon was wrong , but please do not generalize this incorrect, polarizing statement (“surgeons only know to operate..”).

Nirmal Raut

@oncologician

1 year

Today a stage 4 patients relatives asked me - “when there is a treatment option ,why did the surgeon say that there is none ?” I said - Surgeons only know to operate.Since it is beyond their expertise,hence he said - nothing can be done .

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Elliot Servais, MD, FACS

@ElliotServaisMD

3 years

Extremely happy to announce our successful recruitment of Dr. Ammara Watkins @ammara_a to the #thoracic group @LaheyHospital !! Dr Watkins is a superstar fellow @BIDMCSurgery and one of our graduating @LaheyThoracic fellows. Expect great things! #tssmn #LCSM

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Elliot Servais, MD, FACS

@ElliotServaisMD

3 years

No surgeon should use the term “surgery” as synonymous with “operation”. You perform an operation; surgery is a medical specialty that includes performing operations, but encompasses much more. “I performed a surgery today” denigrates the specialty. #MedTwitter #SoMe4Surgery

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Elliot Servais, MD, FACS

@ElliotServaisMD

3 months

Hey…they said it…not me 😎 (Pssst…they’re right though 😜)

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Elliot Servais, MD, FACS

@ElliotServaisMD

3 years

People often say “surgery...wow...that must be stressful” With all the craziness in the world, the OR is my happy place. That’s where I’m zen. Protected from the outside, free. Good luck to #SurgeryMatch2021 . You have chosen wisely. #surgery #surgeonlife #happyplace #MedTwitter

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Elliot Servais, MD, FACS

@ElliotServaisMD

4 months

@drkeithsiau @Karimep94 Nah. @drkeithsiau is tricking you all. You don’t aspirate a chylothorax from the lung. Chylothorax occurs in the pleural space. If this was aspirated from the lung it could be an abscess or maybe the patient aspirated eggnog 😉

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Elliot Servais, MD, FACS

@ElliotServaisMD

1 year

Today I finished OR early…instead of burying myself in manuscript reviews and chart completions, I left to pick up my daughter from school and brought her to an arcade she loves I still have not completed my mandatory annual education and wellness modules…sorry, not sorry!!

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Elliot Servais, MD, FACS

@ElliotServaisMD

4 months

Check out this @ctsnetorg video “how I do it” on robotic paraesophageal hernia repair. Identifying the proper plane between the sac and peritoneum on the hiatus are critical. Video also shows our Dor and Nissen technique

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Elliot Servais, MD, FACS

@ElliotServaisMD

3 years

Dear Surgery Residents, When you ask for instrument A, and the experienced scrub tech/nurse looks you in the eyes and hands you instrument B...take instrument B. Thank me later. #MedTwitter #Surgery #SoMe4Surgery

Sam Ghali, M.D.

@EM_RESUS

3 years

Dear New Doc, When a nurse says “I need you right now in Room 13”, stop everything you’re doing and IMMEDIATELY go to room 13. Trust me on this one.

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Elliot Servais, MD, FACS

@ElliotServaisMD

4 years

@antijenic “Wicked” .... (fill in the blank) Wicked awesome Wicked smaaht

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Elliot Servais, MD, FACS

@ElliotServaisMD

2 months

Special delivery today @LaheyHospital @bethisraellahey ! Excited & honored to be one of first sites in the world with the new @IntuitiveSurg robot - DV5 A testament to Lahey’s commitment to patient care, innovation, & surgical excellence! Looking forward to 1st case tomorrow!

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Elliot Servais, MD, FACS

@ElliotServaisMD

2 months

Postoperative incentive spirometry is a scam (Hospitals should take all the money they spend on those little spirometers and spend it on early ambulation resources instead!)

Sam Ghali, M.D.

@EM_RESUS

2 months

What’s your unpopular medical opinion that would land you in this position? Drop it in this thread

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Elliot Servais, MD, FACS

@ElliotServaisMD

1 year

Me before taking a brand new fellow through a robotic lobectomy vs after… #tssmn @TSRA_official @STS_CTsurgery Before After

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Elliot Servais, MD, FACS

@ElliotServaisMD

4 months

My biggest advice to thoracic surg residents & fellows is to learn thoracic anatomy. I mean really learn it. Know it backwards, forwards, upside down. I mean - walk in the room & know what they’re dissecting in a millisecond glance type know it. @ThoracicStudent @TSRA_official

Milad Sharifpour, MD

@MSharifpourMD

4 months

My biggest advice to anesthesia residents and CCM fellows is to learn physiology. Once you learn how to apply/optimize physiology, you can take care of any patient

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Elliot Servais, MD, FACS

@ElliotServaisMD

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I am very proud and grateful to be elected as a member in the AATS @AATSHQ I’ve held the AATS in the highest esteem since medical school and this marks a true milestone in my academic thoracic surgery career. @smoffattbruce1 @NateEvansMD @Daniela_Molena @BrendonStilesMD

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Elliot Servais, MD, FACS

@ElliotServaisMD

3 years

Turned 40 Finally discovered the two most important commodities in life: 1) Time 2) Ibuprofen

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Elliot Servais, MD, FACS

@ElliotServaisMD

2 years

Stay tuned for the 2022 @STS_CTsurgery General Thoracic Surgery Database (GTSD) update in press @annalsthorsurg We see the continued trend towards minimally invasive surgery and, importantly, low mortality and overall morbidity in the world’s largest thoracic surgery database.

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Elliot Servais, MD, FACS

@ElliotServaisMD

2 months

1of4/ Lots of talk about ergonomics, which are definitely improved, but frankly very low on my list of benefits having had the privilege of doing a case on DV5 yesterday (the first thoracic case post-FDA approval!) Too much to list here, but the safety features are remarkable.

Daniel Oberlin

@Urology_MD

2 months

@CanesDavid @ElliotServaisMD @LaheyHospital @LaheyUro @LaheyAnesthesia @LaheyColoRectal @LaheySurgery @mdstifelman Haha. Seems unnecessary. With healthcare costs where they are currently at I’d need to see some serious surgical improvement technology in this machine to support the costs. Personally find the ergonomics of the Xi very good but looking forward to trying the dv5.

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Elliot Servais, MD, FACS

@ElliotServaisMD

3 years

One issue I see in academic medicine is that the endpoint for investigators is often the publication of a manuscript rather than the actual clinical implementation/translation of the findings. #medtwitter #SoMe4Surgery

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Elliot Servais, MD, FACS

@ElliotServaisMD

3 months

Us: “we are scientists” Also Us:

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Elliot Servais, MD, FACS

@ElliotServaisMD

2 years

@Cirbosque @pferrada1 @DeliaCortesGuir @PipeCabreraV @juliomayol @SWexner @MISIRG1 @TopKniFe_B @almagoch @TomVargheseJr Yikes!! I see this every once in a while in textbooks and it makes me cringe. Please do not place the Finochietto in this orientation - the crossbar is blocking medial extension to clamshell. Crossbar should be toward the bed!!

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Elliot Servais, MD, FACS

@ElliotServaisMD

3 years

Awesome! This is me and my younger brother. I’m a thoracic surgeon and he’s a fellow in vascular surgery. #LegosToSurgery #SurgeonSiblings

Jad M. Abdelsattar, MD

@Jad_Sattar

3 years

My older brother and I. From building LEGO planes, forts and cars to becoming surgeons. He’s a robotic thoracic surgeon at Loyola now and I’m about to finish surgical training and move to sub-specialise in breast surgical oncology #ILookLikeASurgeon #MedTwitter

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Elliot Servais, MD, FACS

@ElliotServaisMD

10 months

"Non-laparoscopic cardiac surgery" Should we tell them? 😂 Do better @NEJM

Luis Felipe Tapias, MD

@LFTapias

10 months

Interesting paper @NEJM very thought-provoking. Many questions come to mind. Also, you can clearly tell that a surgeon did not read this before submission or during peer-review. #thoracic #surgery #thymectomy #thymoma

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Elliot Servais, MD, FACS

@ElliotServaisMD

7 months

Lung cancer kills more women than breast, ovarian, and cervical cancer - combined! Anyone with lungs can get lung cancer The time for lung cancer research and advocacy is now! @WomenInThoracic @LungRescue @AmLungCSI

Shanda Blackmon, MD

@ShandaBlackmon

7 months

November is Lung Cancer Awareness Month. Women are affected with lung cancer as much as men but often don’t have the same support to seek care. WTS cares about you and your loved ones! #WTSwearswhiteforLC

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Elliot Servais, MD, FACS

@ElliotServaisMD

2 months

@AshleyGWinter There are good data that hyperbaric oxygen has equivalent impact on wellness as doing online wellness modules 😜

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Elliot Servais, MD, FACS

@ElliotServaisMD

2 years

We currently screen <10% of eligible people for Lung Cancer (generous estimate). With cancer detection rate ~2.3% ( @LaheyHospital published data) & est 15mil eligible people in the USA… There’s opportunity to diagnose additional 310,000 lung cancers w/lung cancer screening!

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Elliot Servais, MD, FACS

@ElliotServaisMD

2 years

😁 @LaheySurgery @TuftsMedSchool #tssmn

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Elliot Servais, MD, FACS

@ElliotServaisMD

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@rbarbosa91 Tissue handling is critical & a refined skill, but can be taught to non-surgeons The differentiator is intraoperative decision-making, complication management, & pivoting with aberrant anatomy/findings. This is what “doctoring in the OR” means and separates pure technicians.

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Elliot Servais, MD, FACS

@ElliotServaisMD

4 years

For trainees (students/residents/fellows)... What is the diagnosis and how many different treatment approaches can you name? #tssmn @TSRA_official @ThoracicStudent @RASACS @MISIRG1 #MedTwitter #MedEd #CTSurgery

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Elliot Servais, MD, FACS

@ElliotServaisMD

2 years

Dear anesthesia resident, Thank you for all you do. You are wonderful Now…when I tell you, I see the diaphragm contracting, I do not care if “there are no twitches” 😂🤦🏼‍♂️

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Elliot Servais, MD, FACS

@ElliotServaisMD

4 years

General thoracic surgeons: What are the 5 most impactful studies in the last 20 years that all residents/fellows/surgeons should know? Here's a start: -CALGB 39802 -INT 0139 -ACOSOG Z0030 -CROSS trial -NLST #tssmn @STS_CTsurgery @AATSHQ @TSRA_official #CTSurgery @TOutcomes

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Elliot Servais, MD, FACS

@ElliotServaisMD

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@RajaFlores @TWorrest By the way…there are ACTUALLY data on this! Surgeons with higher rates of unprofessional behavior complaints (ie “jerks”) have more complications!!! #SoMe4Surgery #MedTwitter #BeNice

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Elliot Servais, MD, FACS

@ElliotServaisMD

1 year

Sometimes Thoracic Surgery is very humbling For me, today is one of those day 😔 #tssmn

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Elliot Servais, MD, FACS

@ElliotServaisMD

1 year

@rbarbosa91 One of the senior surgeons where I trained would take the needle driver from your hand if he saw you palming it, hold it up, and ask if you thought the holes or for hanging the instrument on the wall 😂

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Elliot Servais, MD, FACS

@ElliotServaisMD

1 year

@md_stat @MMurphy_MD @DDunn1234 @TopKniFe_B That’s actually not what you said. You said women having a significant part in their children’s lives is “not compatible” with CT surgery. A very different statement from what you are now backtracking and saying 😂🤦🏼‍♂️ @ammara_a @WomenInThoracic @WomenSurgeons

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Elliot Servais, MD, FACS

@ElliotServaisMD

4 years

Why robotics for lung CA? 1. See better (no more asking "Fred" q2sec!), 2. wristed instrumentation = precise dissection, 3 autonomous operation & 4. future of computer interface! Here's an example in a left level 7 dissection. #tssmn #lcsm @MISIRG1 @STS_CTsurgery @TSRA_official

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Elliot Servais, MD, FACS

@ElliotServaisMD

3 years

You’re not officially a thoracic surgeon until you are consulted to manage a chest tube that you had recommended not placing in the first place. #thoracic #tssmn

Cliff Robinson

@SBRT_CR

3 years

You're not officially a radiation oncologist until you are consulted to manage radiation side effects for a patient who never received radiation. #radonc

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Elliot Servais, MD, FACS

@ElliotServaisMD

1 month

When your hospital President & CEO (and colleague and friend) shows up for your @AATSHQ induction ceremony This is what sponsorship looks like! Thank you @smoffattbruce1 🙏🏻

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Elliot Servais, MD, FACS

@ElliotServaisMD

3 years

For students and trainees: 20yo man presents with acute worsening of chronic dysphagia and post-prandial chest discomfort. CT scan shown below. What's the diagnosis? Treatment? #tssmn @ThoracicStudent @TSRA_official @thoracicrad @MISIRG1 #SoMe4Surgery #medtwitter #MedEd

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Elliot Servais, MD, FACS

@ElliotServaisMD

4 months

Robotic esophagectomy is a complex operation with a steep learning curve. Engaging in a well-planned training pathway is critical. This involves video review, case obs, and proctoring. Was a pleasure and honor to host @abribriesco43 for RAMIE obs.

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Elliot Servais, MD, FACS

@ElliotServaisMD

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Thoracic fellow Dr. Ammara Watkins @ammara_a doing a robotic left upper lobectomy on her last day on service with us. Keep an eye out for this superstar graduating this year! @STS_CTsurgery @SidhuGang @WomenInThoracic @BIDMCSurgery @LaheyHospital #tssmn #MedTwitter

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Elliot Servais, MD, FACS

@ElliotServaisMD

6 months

"Women screened for breast cancer are dying from lung cancer." Important article from Vanderbilt regarding the huge missed LCS opportunity in the mammography population.

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Elliot Servais, MD, FACS

@ElliotServaisMD

2 years

So I paid for Twitter blue. I now have the blue checkmark. It’s truly life-changing I feel smarter, stronger, my blood pressure this morning has improved, I can run faster, go longer on Peloton, my kids manners have improved, I’ve stopped losing my hair Thank you @elonmusk

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Elliot Servais, MD, FACS

@ElliotServaisMD

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It’s an honor to be inducted as a member of the @AATSHQ . Humbling to stand with so many accomplished friends and colleagues. Thanks to many mentors and supporters along the way @BrendonStilesMD @Daniela_Molena @NateEvansMD @smoffattbruce1 @LaheyHospital #AATS2024

Dr. David Tom Cooke

@DavidCookeMD

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Also congrats to @biniamkidaneMD @ChiFuJeffYang & @ElliotServaisMD in this picture for being new inductees to the @AATSHQ ! Congrats! #AATS2024

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Elliot Servais, MD, FACS

@ElliotServaisMD

1 year

@drkeithsiau That’s not blood! It’s…

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Elliot Servais, MD, FACS

@ElliotServaisMD

2 months

Nothing to see here… Just Arnold Schwarzenegger @Schwarzenegger in the list of speakers for @AATSHQ meeting next week. #AATS2024

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Elliot Servais, MD, FACS

@ElliotServaisMD

3 months

This next generation robotic system is the real deal! Super excited about “force feedback” allowing surgeons to sense forces during robotic operations and the digital surgery suite. Ergonomics feel noticeably better operating on the system as well.

Intuitive

@IntuitiveSurg

3 months

Today, we’re proud to announce the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) provided 510(k) clearance for da Vinci 5, our next-generation multiport robotic system.

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Elliot Servais, MD, FACS

@ElliotServaisMD

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Talking to a couple students about #surgerymatch2024 10 years as an attending, ~10 years training prior to that… And I still think the ability and privilege to operate on someone is the coolest thing in the world. The OR remains one of my happy places.

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Elliot Servais, MD, FACS

@ElliotServaisMD

1 year

Robotic left upper lobe apicoposterior (S 1+2) segmentectomy for lung cancer. @TSRA_official @ThoracicStudent @tssmn #tssmn #lungcancer #MedTwitter #SoMe4Surgery @okusanyamd @ManuSancheti @BrianMitzman @LanaSchumache10 @SteveYangMD @soukiasianmd

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Elliot Servais, MD, FACS

@ElliotServaisMD

3 years

Congrats to Lahey Hepatobiliary & Transplant team for 100th robotic liver resection! This team embodies excellence performing 60% liver rsxn robotically including living DONOR hepatectomy. Congrats! #MedTwitter #DonateLife @SAGES_Updates #SoMe4Surgery

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Elliot Servais, MD, FACS

@ElliotServaisMD

2 years

@DrClaudiusMahr This💯 It also disincentives non-RVU producing activities, potentially creates competition rather than collaboration within divisions/departments, and rewards quantity over quality!

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Elliot Servais, MD, FACS

@ElliotServaisMD

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Points for those considering surgical residency: 1. Research is not mandatory, expected in some programs, but not in many 2. Research during residency has started many a surgeon-scientist career 3. My research years were some of the most formative in my entire training and

George Tolis

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I am strongly opposed to mandatory research in residency training-it contributes zero to a surgeon’s clinical acumen or maturity. I am also blessed to work in an open minded academic environment where my “heretic” opinion on this subject is respected and not used against me.

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Lahey Colorectal team led here by @jabelsonmd warming up between cases @LaheyColoRectal is built different 💪🏼 (And @WCMSurgery graduates)

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Drone delivering donor lungs for organ transplantation! 🤯 And this is not science fiction @tssmn #tssmn #MedTwitter #SoMe4Surgery #transplant

Science Robotics

@SciRobotics

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A new Focus details how a drone successfully brought a donated lung to a 63-year-old patient for ensuing organ transplant surgery. @AndrewTSage @SKeshavjee @UHN

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Congratulations Dr. Ammara Watkins @ammara_a and the @LaheyHospital thoracic team for publishing our technique for robotic sleeve resection for lung cancer in @Innovationsjour . #tssmn #LCSM #roboticsurgery #lungcancer @socroboticsurg @BIDMCSurgery

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Elliot Servais, MD, FACS

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For trainees (students/residents/fellows): This patient had VATS thymectomy for Masaoka I thymoma and subsequently developed chronic dyspnea. What is this imaging technique called? What is the diagnosis? #tssmn @TSRA_official @ThoracicStudent @RASACS @MISIRG1 @thoracicrad

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Elliot Servais, MD, FACS

@ElliotServaisMD

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Extremely proud to celebrate with the @LaheyHospital lung cancer screening program another milestone this week: 300 lung cancers diagnosed (of 22,250 scans performed)!! With >80% of these cancers early stage that’s many lives saved! #LungCancerScreening #tssmn @lung_ca_screen

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Elliot Servais, MD, FACS

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When I was looking for my first job out of training, someone told me not to worry about salary, that salary will come with time… How’s 4 yrs of college, 4 yrs med school, 5 yrs residency, 2 yrs research, 2 yrs fellowship… like that kind of time?

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Elliot Servais, MD, FACS

@ElliotServaisMD

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This is an underappreciated, critical operative pearl! Relevant to any approach - open, MIS, robotic Surgeon’s tunnel vision to tip of the instrument can fail to appreciate trauma from proximal part of instrument. In robotics, the gears out of view for example Always maintain

Ron Barbosa MD FACS

@rbarbosa91

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@PipeCabreraV @BBASS_skills @pferrada1 @David_ukan @XavierBerardMD @VasculonR @docpark @AWBeckMD Unrelated, but the video shows something I like to point out: it's possible to injure the bowel with the proximal portion of the needle driver. This can occur because the person sewing is usually looking elsewhere. In fact, there's a scuff mark on the bowel from this.

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The most common question I get regarding our RAMIE approach is how we do the anastomosis This video shows our preferred approach, which has been refined over >100 RAMIEs (and still learning!)

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Elliot Servais, MD, FACS

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This folks is why you always proofread your dictated operative reports before submitting… 🤦🏼‍♂️😬 #tssmn @tssmn

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Elliot Servais, MD, FACS

@ElliotServaisMD

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My son came home from school today with this… At least some things in this crazy world never change 😂

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Elliot Servais, MD, FACS

@ElliotServaisMD

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Pleased to share our article on “Advanced Endoscopy for Thoracic Surgeons” in Thoracic Surgery Clinics by @KatieIFuentes @SeastedtMD @biniamkidaneMD Everything endoscopy for #thoracic : POEM, endo-VAC, stenting, etc @LaheySurgery @BIDMCSurgery

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Elliot Servais, MD, FACS

@ElliotServaisMD

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Yup…I made the right career choice 😂

Orly Leiva, MD

@LeivaOrly

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Confession as a cardiology fellow 8 weeks from graduating: I low key miss pontificating on rounds about the differential of eosinophilia and hyponatremia. Once an internist, always an internist haha

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