Why a new platform?

We become the solution to any issue presented to us. Whether clinical or administrative, it is oftentimes the surgeon who leads both by foresight and example. While there are countless clinical examples that can be written, this ethos clearly bleeds beyond the four walls of the hospital into other aspects of a surgeon’s life.

This is why a new platform was conceived, drafted, and ultimately built. We saw something so precious yet so broken. We saw an invaluable form of collaboration grow from a primitive social media experiment that helped countless lives, yet was siloed. A movement of surgeons onto social media in a manner that has accelerated knowledge-sharing magnitudes of order greater than could have been dreamed, yet has been held back due to the constraints of using public social media sites. A movement that, despite its pluses, is riddled with countless limitations and privacy concerns.

This was our why, our North Star: Create a platform that respected the work already done on public social media, yet refine it to the point that it was vastly superior in every aspect.

From privacy, to search, to integrations (think YouTube and PubMed , as well as vendor booth space integrations, knowing the intricacies and sensitivities of medicine), we’ve done our best to think of it all when building SurgeOn.

So that’s it. That’s our why. We wanted to refine the unrefined. Close the loops where they were left open. Protect the unprotected. And most importantly, move surgery forward.