The Physician as Leader: Navigating the Breadth of Opportunity and Finding Your Best Fit.

Leadership is important in all aspects of a physician's professional life. Leadership skills can be developed with experience, training, coaching, and mentorship. Physicians have an obligation to learn as much as possible about effective leadership so that when an opportunity to lead comes, they will make optimal use of it and feel empowered to contribute to solutions and improvements at all levels of health care.

The Evolving Role of Advanced Practice Providers in Otolaryngology: Improving Patient Access and Patient Satisfaction.

The aging US population requires an increasing volume of otolaryngology-head and neck surgery services, yet the otolaryngologist physician workforce remains static. Advanced practice providers (APPs), including physician assistants and nurse practitioners, improve access across the continuum of primary and subspecialty health care. The rapid growth of APP service is evidenced by a 51% increase in APP Medicare billing for otolaryngology procedures over 5 years.

Commentary: legal minimum tread depth for passenger car tires in the U.S.A.--a survey.

Available tire traction is a significant highway safety issue, particularly on wet roads. Tire-roadway friction on dry, clean roads is essentially independent of tread depth, and depends primarily on roadway surface texture. However, tire-wet-roadway friction, both for longitudinal braking and lateral cornering forces, depends on several variables, most importantly on water depth, speed and tire tread depth, and the roadway surface texture.