I hope that other surgeons will learn from it and improve their relationships with their patients, their families, and themselves.

Now that we’re exiting the pandemic stage, it’s time to brainstorm ways to build back our connections to each other and with our local communities.
Our specialty was initially worried about whether we would have enough otolaryngologists when we perhaps should have been worrying about whether we might have too many.
Young physicians have medicine’s great future for enhancement of patient care and prevention of disease ahead of them as perhaps no other generation of physicians or specialists in otolaryngology has ever had.
If the COVID-19 pandemic has shown us anything, it’s that working in collaboration can bring the swiftest and most creative solutions to our problems.
For Soham Roy, MD, MMM, being able to perform violin on stage with one of his longtime patients was “one of the coolest things I ever did.”
What responsibility do we have in the otolaryngology community to police ourselves?
Caring for a colleague in medicine carries additional responsibilities, including navigating potential challenges to your care in the context of autonomy, beneficence, nonmaleficence, and social justice.
Offering medical students a means to learn more about residency programs via Instagram demonstrates one generation reaching out to the future members of the field.