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Figure out your targets and then automate as much as possible, be it through automatic transfers, automate your savings, move it to a separate account that you're not going to touch. And do as much of that through automation as possible, because really when it's left up to our willpower, all of us are pretty bad at it ... and so what we want is to have good systems in place.  — Clint Gos...

If you put yourself in a place where you say, "Oh, that will never happen to me because I'm strong, and I'm stoic, and I have it under control and I have all the answers," then you already have made yourself susceptible to burnout. — Felicia Speed, LMSW Wellness and burnout are increasingly important topics in today's fast-paced culture, and we all want to achieve wellness...

ATTRACT essentially found that, really, it's the people with iliofemoral deep vein thrombosis (DVT) who are the ones most likely to benefit and that, in fact, quality of life was improved in the iliofemoral patients. And so that certainly suggests that we're barking up the right tree with the C-TRACT Trial. — Suresh Vedantham, MD, FSIR Hot on the heels of the ATTRACT Trial results comes...

Without being able to articulate what that value is, I’m sure many IRs across the country can relate to the struggle that might ensue when you’re trying to [explain it]. You know you’re valuable, but you have trouble quantifying it and articulating it. —Matt Hawkins, MD In December 2019, SIR Foundation hosted a Research Consensus Panel on the Value of Interventional Radiology, led by Matt Hawkins,...

That could actually create a really big void if we’re not in communities taking care of patients. We’re the “go-to,” we’re necessary in these big systems or big hospitals, but when you get very far from them at all, then you have communities that have absolutely no access to IR. —Laura Findeiss, MD, FSIR In 2009, SIR held its inaugural Leadership Development Academy (LDA). Among that first class’s...

It’s not me trying to do five more so that you guys do five less. It’s my trying to work with you to reach out to these women who are suffering in silence out in the community. There’s somewhere in the United States 2 to 3 million women with symptomatic uterine fibroids who just aren’t getting treatment at all. —A.J. Gunn, MD In 2019, interventional radiologist A.J. Gunn, MD, and his colleagues di...

During that time period, many of the Japanese Americans, like my parents who were born in the United States, were a quiet bunch of people ... and so my parents never talked about it. In fact it wasn’t in our history books, growing up. I didn’t even know about the internment camps—and the fact that my family was affected by them—until I was 25. — Alan H. Matsumoto, MD, FSIR At the SIR 2019 annual m...