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Behind the Knife, The Surgery Podcast, where we take a behind the scenes intimate look at

surgery from leaders in the field. Welcome to another episode of Behind the Knife, I'm Shra Gupda in today's episode is in conjunction with American Association of Endocrine Surgeons and Annals of Surgery.

This is the episode that is going to be focusing on

tired surgery guidelines. Today in conversation we have Dr. Keppel Patel.

He is the Associate Professor of Surgery and a Director of Endocrine Surgery at NYU.

He's also the Research Chair of the American Academy of Endocrine Association of Endocrine Surgeons.

He's the first author of these viral guidelines and we are very

excited to have him be on the podcast to be discussing these guidelines. We also have

Dr. Erb Chen, he's the professor and chair of the Department of Surgery at University of Alabama.

He is also the co-author of the Spider guidelines.

Very excited and happy to have you on podcast. Thank you so much for joining us today.

Thank you.

You bet. Our first question for the team here is what should every surgeon know about these new guidelines?

I guess maybe I'll go first and then carefully led this whole effort can provide some or more substantial commentary but I think it's very exciting to

have these guidelines published by Annals of Surgery the first time the American Association of American Surgeons have put together guidelines regarding

thyroid surgery in an effort to standardize and prove the quality and to give direction for people who do this type of operations for

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