Cold Steel: Canadian Journal of Surgery Podcast

 Most of us come out of training and have no idea on how to balance a busy clinical practice, academic interests, and most importantly, our home and personal lives. Mr. Adi Kumar is trying to change that. Mr. Kumar is a consultant neurosurgeon in the UK and has written a book called Work Less, Live More: The Doctor’s Guide for Time Freedom. We caught up with him to talk about his unconventional ac...

Shiva Jayaraman is a minimally invasive and hepatobiliary surgeon at St. Joseph’s Hospital. He’s been traveling around the world talking about his innovative peer-to-peer coaching program for bile duct injuries. Not only is this such an important clinical topic that virtually every general surgeon in the world has to deal with, but his group’s approach to coaching is something that we should be tr...

On this episode, we had the opportunity to speak with Beverly Blaney. Bev is a psychotherapist who has extensive experience doing therapy with physicians in particular, as well as conducting workshops on mindfulness for Queen’s School of Medicine. We asked her about her perspective on the psychological challenges surgeons experience during their training, and her thoughts on what we could do to ma...

We sat down with arguably the world expert on low anterior resection syndrome. Dr. Marylise Boutros (https://twitter.com/BoutrosMarylise) is an academic colorectal surgeon at Cleveland Clinic Florida.. Dr. Boutros talks about her pioneering research to understand and treat the challenging functional issues that patients must content with. We also talk about her move to Cleveland Clinic and her adv...

This is a re-broadcast to honour the memory of the "Boss" Dr. Feliciano. Original shownotes: It’s not an understatement to say that Dr. David Feliciano is a true giant in trauma surgery. Dr. David V. Feliciano received his medical degree in 1970 from Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. He completed his general surgery training at Mayo Clinic, in trauma at Wayne State University, and vascular...

We are re-broadcasting this episode in honour of the memory of the late Dr. David Feliciano. Original shownotes: In this episode, we were lucky enough again to be joined by Dr. David Feliciano. Dr. Feliciano is a world-renowned trauma surgeon and a passionate surgical historian. Today he joins us to talk about surgeons who won the Nobel Prize and the complex and rich history that surrounds them. E...

It is with sadness but also profound gratitude that we commemorate the passing of David V Feliciano on January 4, 2024.  We invited our friend Neil Parry on the podcast to talk about our memories and the legacy of this amazing surgeon, researcher, and mentor.  Links: 1. David V. Feliciano: Contributions to acute care surgery. https://www.canjsurg.ca/content/65/2/E203 2. E27 David Feliciano On Trau...

We still got more in the vault from CSF 2023! In this episode, Dr. Spoyalo talked about her work on perioperative warming at Vancouver General Hospital. Listen to the work she's done to understand what goes on for warming (most patients have 11 blankets!) and the modeling she's done to figure out the most effective techniques for warming. Another example of the amazing work being done through Dr....

In this special episode, we had the opportunity to do our first live Cold Steel episode! We were lucky enough to be able to have Dr. Justin Dimick join us at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario as part of our William Ersil research day. During this interview we really delved into Dr. Dimick’s life story and his vision for how we can continue to improve the science and craft of surgery.  Links:...

Dr. Haytham Kaafarani is a trauma surgeon at Massachusetts General Hospital. We caught up with him after he recently gave a phenomenal talk at the Canadian Surgical Forum in Vancouver earlier this year. Dr. Kaafarani talked about his work in Lebanon after the explosion in 2020, his research on intra operative adverse events, and ultimately on his work as surgeons as second victims. This episode is...

Do you really have to do that appendectomy for acute uncomplicated appendicitis at 2 am??? Now you have level 1 evidence to tell you! Continuing on with our best of Canadian Surgical Forum 2023 series, we interviewed Dr. Zuhaib Mir (current HPB and transplant fellow at Dalhousie University). He spoke on behalf of his coinvestigators on their amazing work on the role of delayed appendectomy for acu...

This year we've had the pleasure of introducing a new segment where we highlight some of our favourite sessions from our national general surgery conference, the Canadian Surgical Forum (CSF).  In this episode, hepatopancreaticobiliary (HPB) surgeon Dr. Katrina Duncan (@dockcduncan) and HPB fellow Dr. Richard Gilbert (@RichWDGilbert) update us on the best HPB content from this year's conference. D...

How do surgeons incorporate new techniques, tools and approaches while in practice? Dr. Hugh MacDonald is a colorectal surgeon at Queen's University. He has been in practice for nearly 30 years and has been at the forefront of adopting new techniques into his practice, including laparoscopy and most recently robotic surgery. We talk to Hugh about how he approaches innovation and what drives him to...

Dr. Amin Madani is the director of the Surgical AI Research Academy (SARA) at the University Health Network (UHN). He is an endocrine and acute care surgeon at UHN and assistant professor of surgery at the University of Toronto. Dr. Madani talked to us and showed us some of the work he is doing on AI in surgery and in particular on computer vision. He really breaks down for us the terms AI, machin...

Podcast transcript: https://www.canjsurg.ca/content/e148-ron-barbosa-twitter-threads-surgical-education On this episode we were joined by the Twitter (X???) legend Dr. Ron Barbosa. Dr. Barbosa is a trauma surgeon at Legacy Health in Portland, Oregon. He's gained popularity for his fantastic threads on Twitter discussing topics in surgery everyone always wondered about but are too afraid to ask. We...

Podcast transcript: https://www.canjsurg.ca/content/e147-journal-club-nathan-ginther-stapled-rectal-prolapse-repair In this episode, we were joined by colorectal surgeon Dr. Nathan Ginther. Dr. Ginther is based out of the University of Saskatchewan, and is the principle author of the CJS article published in January of 2023, entitled, "A comparison of perineal stapled prolapse resection and the Al...

We caught up with Dr. Justin Rivard, new program director at University of Manitoba general surgery residency program! Links: 1. https://umanitoba.ca/medicine/department-surgery/general-surgery-residency 2. https://www.instagram.com/uofmgeneralsurgery/?hl=en

Podcast transcript: https://www.canjsurg.ca/content/e146-jonathan-white-surgery101-surgical-education-and-sabbaticals We were joined on this episode by Dr. Jonathan White. Dr. White is a colorectal surgeon at Royal Alexandra Hospital in Edmonton, Alberta, and is the co-creator of  @Surgery101, the wildly successful surgical podcast aimed at medical students. Dr. White talked about his early career...

Podcast transcript: https://www.canjsurg.ca/content/e145-masterclass-rob-bechara-optical-evaluation-colonic-polyps On this episode we were joined by the master of optical evaluation of polyps, Dr. Rob Bechara. Dr. Bechara is an advanced therapeutic endoscopist at Queen’s University, and he gave us a masterclass on how to look at polyps and assess what kind of polyp it is. This is an essential prim...

All of us at some point in our career experience physical pain while operating. We were lucky to be joined by Dr. Geeta Lal (@geetalalmd on twitter) on the show today to talk about the concept of surgical ergonomics. Make sure you check out the YouTube version of this episode, for a special segment where Dr. Lal looks at some actual footage of us operating and makes some recommendations on what we...

To obtain the transcript, please contact podcast.cjs@gmail.com. This is a rebroadcast of our conversation with Dr. Tracy Scott, co-program director of the UBC general surgery residency program! Links: 1. https://twitter.com/ubcgensurg?lang=en 2. https://surgery.med.ubc.ca/divisions/general-surgery/ 3. https://gsresidency.surgery.med.ubc.ca/

To obtain the transcript, please contact podcast.cjs@gmail.com. This is a rebroadcast of our conversation with Dr. Ryan Rochon, program director for the Calgary general surgery residency program! Links: 1. https://twitter.com/calgarygensurg 2. https://www.instagram.com/calgarygensurg/?hl=en 3. https://cumming.ucalgary.ca/departments/surgery/sections/general-surgery

To obtain the transcript, please contact podcast.cjs@gmail.com. This is a rebroadcast from last year's conversation with former program director Dr. Mike Ott! Please check out new program director Dr. Julie Ann Van Koughnett's twitter handle: https://twitter.com/javankoughnett Links: 1. https://twitter.com/western_gensurg 2. https://www.schulich.uwo.ca/generalsurgery/

To obtain the transcript, please contact podcast.cjs@gmail.com. This is a rebroadcast of our conversation with Dr. Sender Liberman about the McGill general surgery residency program! Links: 1. https://www.mcgill.ca/generalsurgery/current-residents 2. https://twitter.com/McGillGenSurg

This is a rebroadcast of last year's conversation with Dr. Lucy Helyer on the Dalhousie general surgery residency program! Links: 1. https://medicine.dal.ca/departments/department-sites/surgery/divisions/general-surgery.html 2. https://www.instagram.com/dalhousiegensurg/?hl=en