223: Thoughts on Transplant Surgery

Dr. Perlman is a Pediatric Neuromuscular Neurologist- what is this specialty, and what was his journey to his current career?Links:Full Episode Blog PostMeded MediaBlueprint MCAT 

Dr. Hlaing is a Critical Care Cardiothoracic Anesthesiologist. Let's chat about their path to this anesthesia subspecialty.Links:Full Episode Blog PostMeded MediaBlueprint MCAT 

For our last submission as the BTK Bariatric Surgery Team, we thought we would take a minute to review some recent landmark trials in bariatric surgery. Get caught up on the impact of bariatric surgery on obesogenic cancers and non-alcoholic steatohepatitis. Journal articles:Asso ...  Show more

Introducing a new series on rural surgery - In this episode, BTK fellow Dr. Cody Mullens sits down with Dr. Bret Autrey, a general surgery attending at Ludington Hospital in Ludington, MI.  Dr. Autrey is a career rural surgeon who discusses, in detail, rural surgery practice, how ...  Show more

In the second episode of our rural surgery series, Dr. Cody Mullens sits down with Dr. Brad Muncy, a 2nd year general surgery resident at Marshall University Rural General Surgery Residency Program and Dr. Jodi Cisco-Goff, an Associate Program Director at Marshall University Rura ...  Show more

In 1954, Joseph Murray attempted a type of kidney swap that no doctor had tried before. The surgery was a success, and the patient would go on to live with the transplanted organ thanks to one key factor: it came from his identical twin. 70 years later, nearly 100,000 kidneys are ...  Show more