Phil Stahel is a Professor of Surgery at East Carolina University, Brody School of Medicine. He is the founding editor and Editor-in-Chief of the peer-reviewed journal Patient Safety in Surgery (www.pssjournal.com) and the editor of textbooks in the surgical patient safety, including “Patient Safety in Surgery” (2014), “Blood, Sweat and Tears – Becoming a Better Surgeon” (2016), “Surgical Patient Safety: A Case-based Approach” (2018), and “Textbook of Polytrauma Management” (2022).