<span itemprop="author">Arthur Williams, MD

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A surgeon’s battle with ketamine-induced hallucinations

An excerpt from Krooked Ketamine. OK, here’s the thing: I had a little problem that needed correcting if I wanted to continue to work as a government surgeon. I had a janky heart, and it had a tendency to fire off at the absolute worst possible m…

The hidden costs of teaching surgery: an academic surgeon’s perspective

I ran across one of those bordering-on-sappy Facebook posts that always pull me in, asking people to describe their job poorly and make it comically accurate. The photographer admitted she would flash clients, shoot someone, and then frame someone else…