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Tiger Country: The Trauma PodcastTiger Country - Episode Ten: Surgical Treatment of Gastric and Duodenal Ulcers, or, That’s A Spicy MeatballIn this episode, DuBose and Milos are sadly deprived of my companionship and commentary, but that's perfectly fine because they're talking to David Feliciano and who's a better guest than that? The three of them discuss the operative treatment of gastric and duodenal ulcer disease, which was once a mainstay of emergency general surgery and is now something rarer than hen's teeth. In addition to proton pumps, those pills inhibit trainee experience. When we started eradicating H. pylori, we started eradicating familiarity with the Kelling-Madlener and Pauchet procedures. I can't think of a third one. Anyway, I'm not there...
2023-11-0648 minTiger Country: The Trauma PodcastTiger Country - Episode Nine: The Sickest Gallbladder I Ever Did SeeIn this episode, which is the second in a row that was recorded without me, Milos and DuBose interview Dr. Kevin Schuster, a Professor of General Surgery, Trauma, and Surgical Critical Care at Yale. I am reminded, as I listen, to my very first question in my very first room of my general surgery oral boards. A cardiac surgery patient with sepsis, likely intraabdominal. Was it acalculous cholecystitis? It was. Did I completely blank out? I did indeed. Did I say, "I'm going to get a CT scan," and was I met with an abrupt transition to the next...
2023-05-2849 minTiger Country: The Trauma PodcastTiger Country - Episode Eight: Whole Blood, or, Meet Doctor AculaIn this episode, Milos and DuBose talk to Martin Schreiber, the Division Head of Trauma, Critical Care and Acute Care Surgery at the Oregon Health Sciences University. Professor Schreiber discusses the finer points of resuscitation with whole blood, including how to get a whole blood program started. He also goes on to discuss how to have two weddings at once, and why John Holcomb has used 'tonic-clonic' to describe Dr. Schreiber's dance style. The most notable thing about this episode, of course, is that I am absent.
2023-05-2852 minTiger Country: The Trauma PodcastTiger Country Resurrected - Episode Five: Pancreatitis and the Damage DoneWhen it's healthy, it's yellow and fluffy-looking, like a Golden Retriever puppy. When it's sick, it's the stuff of nightmares. Unless you're Dr. Greg Beilman, who hath tamed the pancreas and its ailments. Dr. Beilman is the Chief of General Surgery at the University of Minnesota; he's also an Associate Dean at the medical school, the SVP of acute care operations for M Health and, because he clearly has a ton of free time, a colonel in the Army with five deployments under his belt. With all that, it's no wonder that the pancreas doesn't scare him. Come and...
2023-01-2053 minTiger Country: The Trauma PodcastTiger Country Resurrected - Episode Three: ProfessionalismIn this episode, Milos, DuBose, and I discuss a fascinating topic, Professionalism, with David Spain, MD. Dr. Spain is the David L. Gregg, MD Professor and Chief of Acute Care Surgery at Stanford University, which, I hear, is a pretty good institution. Earlier this year, Dr. Spain and his colleagues published their work in the Annals of Surgery associating patient outcomes with the admitting or consulting services' tendency to accrue complaints about their professionalism. Their results - which are somehow both shocking and not shocking - showed that if a patient was cared for by a service with high...
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