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Earning trust in anesthesia: How recognizing limitations can improve patient safety

George Tewfik, MD, MBA
Physician
February 16, 2023

Working with and supervising residents takes a certain degree of trust. Empowering residents with trust can be a difficult proposition for educators. There’s a moment early in the career and education of an anesthesia resident where they earn the trust of their faculty and supervising attendings. This moment is not contingent upon the memorization of a textbook or the demonstration of intubation skills. It doesn’t depend on the recitation of …

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Earning trust in anesthesia: How recognizing limitations can improve patient safety

Prioritizing patient safety during a global pandemic

George Tewfik, MD, MBA
Physician
March 17, 2022

A guest column by the American Society of Anesthesiologists, exclusive to KevinMD.

The refrigerated trucks had not yet left our parking lot when I got an email from the IT department. It was late spring 2020, and deploying a new electronic health record system for the anesthesia department was not front of mind. We …

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Prioritizing patient safety during a global pandemic

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