title: Letter to the editor response.
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada; Department of Surgery, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Electronic address: ranil@skillslab.ca.
authors.forename: Ranil R
authors.initials: RR
authors.lastname: Sonnadara
authors.affiliation: The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
authors.forename: Carween
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Mui
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
authors.forename: Sydney
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: McQueen
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
authors.forename: Polina
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Mironova
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
authors.forename: Markku
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Nousiainen
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
authors.forename: Oleg
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Safir
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
authors.forename: William
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Kraemer
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
authors.forename: Peter
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Ferguson
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Department of Surgery, Duke University, Durham North Carolina, USA.
authors.forename: Benjamin
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Alman
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, Queen's University, Kingston Ontario, Canada.
authors.forename: Richard
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Reznick
mesh_terms: D013502:General Surgery / Q000193:education*; D007396:Internship and Residency