Tourniquet Time with Mike Franco MD

Dr Mike Franco talks about Wide awake local anesthetic no tourniquet surgery

I read and riff in an essay that is not that good

My old old buddy Jared Keenan talks law, helping people in prison and walking the walk

Noah Llaneras is a medical student on the verge of starting his surgical internship. He is open and honest about his path and some bumps along the way. He will be a great doc and he is a beautiful person. And as a bonus, we get to catch up on my former boss, Dr. Susan Mackinnon.

Amazing therapist, Cristina Aicher talks resident life, the medical profession and the challenges of creating boundaries.

I had a great talk with my old buddy Dr. Shaun Desai about life, free flaps in Ukraine, and becoming chairman

Dr. Addagatla, my old buddy, discusses his amazing plastic surgery path and his new adventure of hanging up his own shingle.

Set in the 1920s Jim Crow Alabama, Indigo Men follow Isiah Calhoun, a mysterious drifter who returns to the small town of Ashwater carrying the weight of a painful past. As racial violence tightens its grip on the Black community, Isiah quietly unites a group of mendetermned to fight back agoint fear, injustic and terror in the shadowns. Alon the wasy he finds unexpercted love, bortherhood and pur...

Dr. Michael Franco board certified hand, surgeon and peripheral nerve surgeon talks about TMR

I talk withe plastic surgeon Dr. Alec Fisher. One of our great cooper residents, Alec now works outside of Chi town and runs things in his neck of the woods (my words, not his).

No longer Will I read out loud to myself in my basement or car or hidden in the dark spaces at the surgery center in office as I now found notebook LM to read article articles to me so you don’t need me doing that so what we’re gonna be doing is getting back to talking to other doctors and anyone else doing a craft they want to talk about

I talk with future spine surgeon Dr. Deep Patel, we talk life and AI and the beauty of being human

Hey everybody, Dr. Mike Franco here board certified hand surgeon reflecting on the week on Friday recap. What pops to mine today take nothing for granted. We talked hand, surgery, nerve, surgery, arthritis, hand, pain, and everything in between

I talk with my old pal and brother from another mother Dr. Neil Sachanandani about life and preservation Rhino.

I thought I recorded two amazing episodes with Dr. Chris Cosentino, transplant, surgeon and Dr. Mitch pet amazing hand, surgeon, micro surgeon, plastic surgeon, but they were lost

We talk about amazing training going on here at Cooper how we’re getting the next young generation military unconventional medicine warriors ready for the field. It was an amazing talk. We had so much fun.

Brief episode where I talk about just the job I get to do thank you

I remake an excerpt from mortal lessons notes on the art of surgery Dr. Richard SELZER amazing edition from 1996. We talk about the skin. This is amazingly relevant to the plastic surgeons out there if we could recite this to our patients that come to the office with a wound I think we’d all be brought into tears.

Spoiler alert, if they get better with a corticosteroid injection, they may be more happy with their revision carpal tunnel release. On today’s episode I read through an article from journal of hand surgery December 2, 2025 edition we review an article on outcomes after revision carpal tunnel releasethe thing I took away from the article though we’re talking about a specific group of patients with...

I continue on my journey to learn stuff. This is a surgery. I want to get much more familiar with. I read the whole dang article.

Today we start our back to basic series. I discuss volar locking plates. I finally learned the history of the word VOLAR. I’m very pleased with myself. I’m reading all alone in the bunker peaceful happy.

I ramble on about bone healing and strain and we look at the works of PERREN et al. Thank you to our sponsors at tourniquet time coffee, anytime is a good time for tourniquet time coffee.

In this new segment called tourniquet time shorts, we discussed the origin of the phrase Wallerian degeneration

Today we start on our TECHISODE series I talk about polyethylene glycol, PEG, and it’s used in nerve repair, nerve fusion

Today we continue on our series of “welcome to the office “ .On this episode, I talk you through the problem of cubital tunnel syndrome what you might be experiencing and how we walk through the problem in the office