A US-based surgical education podcast running since 2015, created by Dr Kevin Kniery, Dr Scott Steele, Dr Jason Bingham, and Dr John McClellan. It covers surgical training, procedures, clinical updates, and interviews with surgical experts across various specialties.
Ileocolic Crohn’s surgery is framed around patient-specific reconstruction rather than one superior anastomosis. Key points include recurrence after resection, bowel and mesenteric tissue quality, Kono-S uncertainty, endoscopic access and safe haemostasis in thick Crohn’s mesentery.
Postoperative surgical oncology is becoming part of vaccine trial work. Personalised mRNA approaches rely on tumour sequencing, neoantigen selection, tissue quality and rapid specimen processing, with ctDNA used to identify patients more likely to have occult residual disease.
AI is the broad workflow choice rather than an acute clinical case. It is worth opening if ambient scribes, literature surveillance, spreadsheet preparation or care coordination are starting to enter your week, with the safety line kept simple: never trust, always verify.
Thyroid nodules and biopsy-proven papillary thyroid cancer can lead to overtreatment when risk is not made explicit. This guideline review is strongest for endocrine surgery or oncology clinics weighing lobectomy, active surveillance, ablation, central neck dissection, radioactive iodine and TSH targets.
Facial burns and soot need exposure context, not automatic intubation. Choose this for ED, burns or critical care work where enclosed-space fire, carbon monoxide or cyanide risk, bronchoscopy grading, secretion clearance, ventilator strategy and early ECMO escalation change airway planning.
An incidental carotid bruit or ultrasound stenosis should not automatically lead to surgery. Confirm the patient is truly asymptomatic, optimise antiplatelet, lipid, blood pressure, diabetes and smoking care, then discuss endarterectomy, transfemoral stenting or TCAR using absolute risks.
Major full-thickness burns are a source-control problem once resuscitation is secure. A burn team should plan early or staged excision around 48–72 hours when physiology, depth certainty, blood loss planning, inhalation injury and burn-centre resources allow.
Pulmonary nodules that wax and wane alongside cough, hoarseness, regurgitation or recurrent respiratory infections can be aspiration-related. The foregut lesson is to pair chest imaging with reflux history, objective testing, manometry and urgent action when para-oesophageal hernia becomes gastric volvulus.
Breast cancer staging turns on small operative details. The sentinel node episode clarifies which hot, coloured, clipped or suspicious axillary nodes count, and why documenting counts, channels and node yield matters for multidisciplinary decisions.
Haematemesis after open abdominal aortic aneurysm repair is not something a negative endoscopy should settle. The surgery scenarios are niche, but the bedside lesson is memorable: ask about prior graft surgery, recognise acute mesenteric ischaemia early, and do not let aortoenteric fistula bleeding wait.
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