Cold Steel: Canadian Journal of Surgery Podcast

We were lucky to have Dr. Neel Datta on the podcast this week! Dr. Datta is a colorectal surgeon in Calgary. He did a Masters of Health Economics at the London School of Economics, and has used that expertise to model some of the issues around surgical workforce planning in Canada. We really dug into some of the issues around unemployment and underemployment of surgeons in Canada, and perhaps some...

Dr. Martin Schreiber is a trauma and critical care surgeon at Oregon Health & Science University in Portland. He has had a major impact on our understanding of resuscitation in trauma, among many other topics. We talked to Dr. Schreiber about his experience with the military, his advocacy around trauma research, and trauma resuscitation. Links: 1. Trauma Center Association of America calls for...

On this episode we had a masterclass on gastrointestinal neuroendorine tumors by endocrine and trauma surgeon Dr. Daryl Gray. Dr. Gray is an associate professor Western in London, Ontario, and is possibly one of the most interesting people in the world. We explore his life, his experience being the father of a teen TV star, and of course his passion, neuroendocrine tumors.  Links: 1. The surgeons:...

Dr. John C Alverdy (https://twitter.com/JCAlverdy?s=20) is a minimally invasive surgeon at the University of Chicago. He is an iconoclastic scientist whose research focuses on gut microbiome and its impact on surgical site infections. His lab is continuously NIH funded, with publications in Nature and many other high impact journals. More importantly, however, Dr. Alverdy is willing to challenge c...

A big welcome to all the surgical "roofers" joining us on the show! We had the inimitable Dr. Michael Rosen (https://twitter.com/MikeRosenMD?s=20) on this episode. Dr. Rosen is a world renowned expert in abdominal wall reconstruction at the Cleveland Clinic, and on this episode he gave us a masterclass on all things hernia. Links: 1. Atlas of Abdominal Wall Reconstruction: https://www.elsevier.ca/...

With all the attention to inequities in the surgical community and beyond, sometimes the invisible disparities goes unnoticed. Mental health and its impact on surgical outcomes has been relatively poorly studied, and so on today’s episode we invited the authors of a new narrative review on the topic to talk about what they found. The title of the paper is “Improving Surgical Quality for patients w...

If you were to wander into one of the operating rooms at the Ottawa Civic Hospital and hear a discussion about colorectal surgery, Plato, and Drake simultaneously, you could be pretty sure that you were in the OR of Dr. Husein Moloo (https://twitter.com/HMoloo?s=20). Dr. Moloo is a dually trained minimally invasive and colorectal surgeon in Ottawa. We had the pleasure of speaking with the Renaissa...

Is intercessory prayer more or less effective than lasix? These seemingly random questions are the “rabbit holes” that keep Dr. Wayne Rosen up at night. Dr. Rosen is a colorectal surgeon at the Peter Lougheed Centre in Calgary, Alberta. Dr. Rosen has long delighted the calgary surgical community with his entertaining and thoughtful critiques of a whole host of philosophical and bioethical concepts...

On this episode we were joined by Dr. Richard Buckley. Dr. Buckley is an orthopedic surgeon at the Foothills Medical Centre in Calgary. Dr. Buckley has had an amazingly productive career, with more than 30 years of clinical practice and hundreds of publications. Most importantly, however, Dr. Buckley has really pushed surgeons in Calgary and across Canada to think beyond received wisdoms and criti...

This week we had the pleasure of speaking with Dr. Mark Hamilton on the podcast. Dr. Hamilton is a neurosurgeon at the Foothills Medical Centre in Calgary. Dr. Hamilton helped us walk through a number of neurosurgical issues that are pertinent to general surgeons, such as hydrocephalus, the role of craniectomy in traumatic brain injuries, and DVT prophylaxis in patients with traumatic brain injuri...

We were lucky enough in June to interview a true Canadian icon, Dr. Liane Feldman (https://twitter.com/lianefeldman?s=20)! Dr. Feldman is the Chief of the Division of General Surgery at McGill University and the newest president of the Society of American Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons or SAGES. We really wanted to try to understand – what does it mean to be a minimally invasive surgeon?...

This week we were joined by THE Dr. Walt Biffl, of the Biffl score for blunt cerebrovascular injury. We picked Dr. Biffl’s brain  on what goes into generating good clinical guidelines. We then delve into his work on blunt cerebrovascular disease, and finally, on pancreatic trauma. As always, sends your questions, thoughts, and comments to podcast.cjs@gmail.com.  Links: 1. A tribute to Ernest E. “G...

Dr. Christopher "Chip" Doig is an intensivist at the Foothills Medical Centre in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. We focused on a number of ethical issues in the ICU, from donation after cardiac death to the idea of “futility”, and how to discuss that with patients and their families. Finally, we try to understand how Dr. Doig remains so fresh after all these years as an intensivist.  Links: 1. Resumptio...

The Solving Healthcare podcast hosted by Kwadwo Kyeremanteng has launched medical podcasting in Canada into a whole new level. Dr. K is an intensivist based out of Ottawa, and his podcast, solving healthcare, has been a tremendous source of excellent information on COVID, medicine, exercise, nutrition, and so much more. As if he wasn’t busy enough, Dr. K has now also created the Solving Wellness p...

In this episode, repeat guest and co-editor in chief of CJS Dr. Ed Harvey joins us to discuss “innovation”. Innovation is one of those buzzwords that everyone loves to throw around and use, but rarely do we actually think about what it means to do innovative work and how we might be more innovative. Dr. Harvey is an orthopedic surgeon at McGill University in Montreal, and is involved in several st...

Dr. Carl Brown (https://twitter.com/drcarl_vancouvr?s=20) is a colorectal surgeon at St. Paul’s Hospital in Vancouver, British Columbia. He gave us a masterclass on rectal cancer, starting really with the history of rectal cancer surgery to the evidence around neodjuvant therapy and then giving us a peek at the future of rectal cancer treatment. We then discuss how we should best adopt new technol...

Dr. Jillian Horton (https://twitter.com/JillianHortonMD?s=20) is an an internist at Max Rady College of Medicine in Winnipeg and the author of "We Are All Perfectly Fine". In the book, Dr. Horton beautifully explores burnout and her own personal journey in medicine. We talked to her about the process of writing and the vulnerability involved with such an honest depiction of her own struggles, as w...

Read full transcript here: http://canjsurg.ca/e82-chuck-vollmer-masterclass-on-pancreatic-fistulas/ Dr. Charles "Chuck" Vollmer joined us again for this episode for a masterclass on pancreatic fistulas. Please listen to our previous episode with Dr. Vollmer for more about him, his career, and his fascination with all things pancreas. Previous episode with Dr. Vollmer: https://soundcloud.com/cjs-po...

We were joined this week by Drs. Rhea Liang (https://twitter.com/LiangRhea?s=20) and Simon Fleming (https://twitter.com/OrthopodReg?s=20) to talk about bullying, psychological safety, and culture change in surgery. We hope that the episode can be an opportunity for discussion and reflection for listeners. Links: 1. RCS England Theatre podcast: https://anchor.fm/rcseng/episodes/Culture-Change-Why-d...

This week we were joined by an icon of surgery, Dr. Ken Mattox. Dr. Mattox talked to us about the evolution of trauma surgery, the development of the Trauma textbook, the Las Vegas Trauma, Critical Care, and Acute Care Surgery Conference, and why he thinks we need to challenge the status quo. Links: 1. Trauma textbook: https://www.amazon.ca/Trauma-Seventh-Kenneth-L-Mattox/dp/0071663517 2. Top Knif...

Leena Yousefi is a multiple award winning family lawyer and founder of YLaw in Vancouver, BC. We asked her to come on the show to talk a difficult subject: divorce. Leena has some really insightful comments on some of the factors that specifically seem to play a role in physician divorce, as well as some of the advice she gives her clients who unfortunately end up going through a divorce. YLaw web...

Dr. Brian Cameron is a pediatric surgeon at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario. He has dedicated himself both to pediatric surgery and to global surgery, and has worked around the world in resource-limited settings. This was a particularly memorable episode for us because Dr. Cameron retires this year! This episode was a chance for us to ask him about his career, his life story, and of cours...

This week we have a treat for our listeners – two episodes with Dr. Colin Schieman. Dr. Schieman is a thoracic surgeon at the University of Calgary and the current program director for the thoracic surgery program. We discuss a key issue in modern surgical training – are direct entry programs good or bad for training and trainees? Dr. Schieman also gives his approach for intra operative teaching. ...

E77 Masterclass With Colin Schieman On Lung Nodules And Lung Cancer Screening by Canadian Journal of Surgery

Dr. Peter Angelos (https://twitter.com/pangelos1?s=20) is an endocrine surgeon at the University of Chicago and is really one of the founders of the field of surgical ethics. We ask him to define for us the term “surgical ethics” and chat about a number of important ethical issues such as informed consent, paternalism, and the limits of disclosure.  Links: 1. SOUTHWESTERN SURGICAL CONGRESS EDGAR J...