Excising the “Surgeon Ego” to Accelerate Progress in the Culture of Surgery

Journal Article

Christopher G. Myers, Yemeng Lu-Myers, Amir A. Ghaferi
BMJ, vol. 363, 2018 Nov, pp. k4537

DOI: 10.1136/bmj.k4537

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Myers, C. G., Lu-Myers, Y., & Ghaferi, A. A. (2018). Excising the “Surgeon Ego” to Accelerate Progress in the Culture of Surgery. BMJ, 363, k4537. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.k4537

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Myers, Christopher G., Yemeng Lu-Myers, and Amir A. Ghaferi. “Excising the ‘Surgeon Ego’ to Accelerate Progress in the Culture of Surgery.” BMJ 363 (November 2018): k4537.

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Myers, Christopher G., et al. “Excising the ‘Surgeon Ego’ to Accelerate Progress in the Culture of Surgery.” BMJ, vol. 363, Nov. 2018, p. k4537, doi:10.1136/bmj.k4537 .

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@article{christopher2018a,
  title = {Excising the “Surgeon Ego” to Accelerate Progress in the Culture of Surgery},
  year = {2018},
  month = nov,
  journal = {BMJ},
  pages = {k4537},
  volume = {363},
  doi = {10.1136/bmj.k4537 },
  author = {Myers, Christopher G. and Lu-Myers, Yemeng and Ghaferi, Amir A.},
  month_numeric = {11}
}

Healthy self confidence has an important role in surgery, but we must take care that it doesn’t develop into disruptive ego, say Christopher G Myers and colleagues.

Recent years have seen a palpable change in the surgical community, with major efforts made to shift towards a more positive, humanistic surgical culture. This reflects a broad recognition that ego driven behaviours and disruptive attitudes pose a risk to surgical culture and to patients. The objective and subjective evidence that has prompted these efforts, however, has not been thoroughly explored and understood by the surgical community.