Nov 2023
Tiger Country - Episode Eleven: Damage Control Surgery and the Open Abdomen, or, You Knew We Were Going To Need An Abthera From The Start of The Case, Kyle!
In this episode, your intrepid podsurgeons talk to the venerable and famed Martin Zielinski, lately of the Mayo Clinic and currently Chief of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery at Baylor. Dr. Zielinski talks with us about damage control surgery. For something so widely practiced and s ... Show More
32m 53s
May 2023
Tiger Country - Episode Nine: The Sickest Gallbladder I Ever Did See
In 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 ... Show More
49m 40s
May 2023
Tiger Country - Episode Eight: Whole Blood, or, Meet Doctor Acula
In 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 b ... Show More
52m 11s
May 2025
Let's Talk Diverticulitis
We got the gang together (minus John, who is on mission). Today, we are talking about diverticulitis with super expert Scott Steele. Scott walks Jason, Patrick, and Kevin through the nuances of modern-day management of diverticulitis. We cover laparoscopic lavage, review decision ... Show More
55m 12s
Jan 2024
Lisa McMahon and Michael Rosen - Surgery in Ulcerative Colitis
In the this episode, hosts Drs. Temara Hajjat and Jenn Lee talk to Dr. Lisa McMahon, Chair of Surgery at Phoenix Children's, and Dr. Michael Rosen, Director of the Stanford Medicine Children's Health Center for IBD and Celiac Disease. They discuss managing and counseling a pediat ... Show More
1h 5m
Oct 2020
Episode 96 - The History of the Esophagectomy
This episode was written by a guest contributor, Harvard student Simar Bajaj. In it, we cover some of the anatomy and function of the esophagus, before tracing the history of the earliest attempts at operating on the esophagus (in ancient Egypt!) up to the modern era. We'll meet ... Show More
37m 32s
In 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 r ... Show More
<p><strong>IN THIS EPISODE OF THE HUMAN UPGRADE</strong>™<strong>...</strong></p><p>… Dave talks with Tim Waters about ways to improve the health of his gut microbiome. </p><p>A former wrestler, Tim spent years cutting weight. He experienced gall stones and eventually had hi ... Show More
