Advice to young surgeons.

Advice is defined as“recommendation regarding a decision or course of conduct.” This suggests or implies a request or need for direction. Advice from old to young is not always welcome, yet in today’s complex world of medical practice, there has never been a time when advice is more needed by young surgeons emerging into the medical environment. The enormous changes in the practice of vascular surgerydfrom opensurgery toendovascular surgery, fromhand-writtenhospital notes to electronicmedical records, and from various private third party carriers to the Affordable Care Actdall represent staggering upheavals in the everyday practice of medicine. Further, many couples are two-career families, which puts extra demands of time on both, leading to added stress. Thus, when the History Project Work Group of the Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) conducted interviews over the past few years, advice was considered to be an important topic for discussion. In 2009, the SVS, under the leadership of Richard Cambria and Peter Gloviczki, initiated a project to preserve the history of the SVS, including the merger with the American Association forVascular Surgery (AAVS; originally the International Society for Cardiovascular Surgery, North American Chapter), and of vascular surgery as a surgical specialty via audiovisual DVD recordings of interviews with leaders and contributors of vascular surgery. A committee called the History Project Work Group was formed. The structure and functions of the nine-member committee previously have been described in detail. It soon became apparent that the information we collected has not only historical