

Removal of a Splinter from the Hand
Here Mark demonstrates the typical procedure for removing a splinter from a patients hand. #splinterremoval #operating #video #treatments
Mark Phillips’ Hand Surgery Journal Digest
This journal’s Editorial is interesting. The Editor makes interesting points about why people are so slow to change practice, mentioning ‘anchoring’ (where people tend to take the first piece of useful information they get, and hang on to it). Publicizing your own bad results from a technique is very rare. Changing your long held view, as a key opinion leader, in public is also difficult and rarely happens. He also discusses ‘halo bias’ where an impressive or well known indiv