Cutrale Perioperative

Dear Editor, We read with great interest the study by Draper et al exploring medical students' experiences of caring for older patients.1 The authors provide a rich account of how students derive meaning from connection while experiencing frustration in the face of systemic constraints. We suggest that these findings point to a deeper issue related to false hierarchy between cure and care within medical education.

To the Editor, Pan and colleagues [1] provide an important and timely analysis of sedative and hypnotic use following hip fracture, offering valuable insight into real-world prescribing trajectories during a particularly vulnerable period of recovery and rehabilitation. Their finding that more than half of older adults continued a benzodiazepine (BZD) or Z-drug within 180 days of discharge highlights the persistent challenge of optimizing medication safety after major injury.

A Commentary on Perioperative blood loss is a risk factor for postoperative delirium in geriatric hip fracture patients: a retrospective study by Deng, Y., Zhang, T., Xie, H., and Zeng, J. (2025). Front. Med. 12:1617891. doi: 10.3389/fmed.2025.1617891 We commend Deng et al. (1) for providing a timely and clinically relevant analysis of postoperative delirium (POD) in older adults undergoing hip fracture surgery.