Best of the Best Gen Surg - Welcome, Polling instructions and AHS Introduction - Dr. Todd Ponsky, Dr. Jeff Ponsky, and Dr. Mike Rosen

All right. Good morning. Good afternoon. Good evening. Welcome everyone to the best of the best in general surgery. Uh, my name is Todd Ponsky. Uh, and with me next to me is, uh, my old man Jeffrey Ponsky, and we got Mike Rosen coming to us from a hotel, uh, lobby, I think. Um, I can't afford a room. That's right. Uh, welcome to the Best of the Best. Let me explain what this is. Um, it's too hard to go to every single meeting. Um, so, what we do, we've, we've asked the best societies to tell us what were the top three main, uh, papers, abstracts, big points that came out of the meeting. Let's bring it all together once a year, so everyone can kind of get a summary of what were the best things from all of the societies, a little summary of the year. And, uh, this, this event is surgical subspecialty societies. This is how we decided to start this, and we'll hopefully be doing more of these. Um, so what we did is we asked the three societies, uh, ASCRS, AHS, and SSAT to send us what they thought were their best abstracts. So what you're about to see are the best selected, uh, abstracts of the top meetings. So this already is the best of the best. Um, so, uh, uh, Dad, do you wanna start off, uh, so you are a professor emeritus at Case Western Reserve. Uh, you just retired, so I don't know if you even know surgery anymore. But, uh, let's, let's let you get started here and get going with the event. Yeah, well, I have Doctor Rosen here who pretends to be a surgeon to help me. So we're going to, uh, listen to these abstracts. What The way this is going to work is we're gonna have the people present these uh these videos of their abstract and then we're going to have a 5 minute or so discussion involving everybody who wants to participate to ask questions about these papers and then go on to the next paper after that we're gonna poll the audience and we're gonna vote on which of those abstract. Extracts from that society we think is the best. After we finish all three societies, the papers from all of them we'll have 3 papers then that we consider the best, and we're gonna finally vote on those three papers to see which is the best. We're lucky that Doctor Rosen doesn't have any of his papers here because they're not the best of the best, but we, we'll, we'll go ahead and see.