Sam Atallah, MD

I'm 59. Here ae 18 uncomfortable truths I wish I knew earlier:

The mean age of physicians who leave clinical practice in the US is now 48.1 years, 9 years younger than observed in a similar cohort in 2008. The biggest causes cited were stress and the hassles of practice. 11% of women decided not to even enter practice. What are your thoughts about this? thepermanentejournal.org/doi/10.7812/TP…

Men lose 38% less weight on GLP-1ra medications in this study of 64 randomized controlled trials jamanetwork.com/journals/jamai… #obesity #bariatricsurgery #GLP1

Phoebe played six new songs again tonight in Macon, GA, as well as singing Georgia twice (because she messed up the first time and wanted to do it right for the Georgians)!

A man spends 50 years teaching at MIT. He knows his time is running out. So he records one last lecture — everything he knows, distilled into a single hour. He died 5 months later. This is that lecture. The most important hour you'll watch this week. 👇 Bookmark it for later

phoebe bridgers is playing her SEVENTH show tonight in macon, georgia!!

Instead of watching an hour of Netflix, watch this 2 hour hour Stanford lecture will teach you more about how LLMs like ChatGPT and Claude are built than most people working at top AI companies learn in their entire careers.

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Come to the best meeting on Earth 🤖 #SRS2026 @socroboticsurg @escp_tweets @ASCRS_1 @SAGES_Updates @SRSLATAM @eparradavila @IrcadFrance @SWexner @caycedomarula @AntoniodeLacy @AmCollSurgeons @JohnMarksMD @debby_keller @MarkSoliman @YusefKudsi @M_GomezRuiz @jcpatron @juanreyesmd

Revisiting one of my most popular🧵: Ways in which you can inadvertently damage fragile tissues when approximating them with sutures. These ideas are important mostly when the tissue is friable, because this is when you won't get away with using sloppy technique. (1/ )

Absolutely thrilled to have matched General Surgery at Duke!! 💙 @DukeSurgery @DukeSurgRes

Eager to host this phenomenal @AISChannel faculty from @MedStarHealth @MedStarGUH @MedStarWHC @Georgetown

Dr. Whipple’s application to join the @SocSurgOnc

Eager to welcome the @AmCollSurgeons to my new hometown. Please come one day early for our @MedStarHealth @MedStarGUH @MedStarWHC @MedStarFranklin faculty and alumni research day at @Georgetown @GUMedicine Details to follow soon

Many thanks @PipeCabreraV Muchas gracias!! Muy generoso

Surgeons use augmented reality and tractography to visualize the brain in real time during surgery, enhancing precision and safety. [📹 medivis_ar]

This article should be hung in the Louvre. Absolutely just the highest quality stuff. 👏 It's a technical article about C-sections, but it's like 10 articles, all in one. If you want to see how a technical paper can and should be written, see this from @KarinFoxMD et al.