172 – Ask Dr. Nii – Am I too old to be a surgeon?!?!

Docs Outside The Box

Dr. Nii Darko

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4.9 • 516 Ratings

🗓️ 17 July 2020

⏱️ 24 minutes

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SEND US A TEXT MESSAGE!!! Let Drs. Nii & Renee know what you think about the show! What’s good everyone! On this Ask Dr Nii segment, we’re going to dive deep into how old is too old to start medical school and continue into a career in surgery. One of our listeners submitted a voicemail asking since because he’s in his early thirties is it too late to go after his goal of becoming a surgeon. I brought on Dr. David Hampton, Trauma Surgeon at the University of Chicago, to explain his non...

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0:45.5	physician-hefin CEO.com forward slash DOTB. All right, Dr. David Hampton, how you doing? Welcome to the as Dr.es segment. Hey, Dr. Neat, thanks for having you. Great to be here. First of all, I just want to say thank you very much for jumping on. I know you are extremely busy. For those who don't know, Dr. David Hampton is at a new trauma center that is doing amazing things on the south side of Chicago. You're at the University of Chicago
1:11.3	trauma department, which is relatively new. So I'm going to let you take it from there. Let us know
1:16.2	more about this, and then we'll get into the question. All right. Yeah, I'm actually one of the
1:20.6	trauma surgeons at the University of Chicago, and we're pretty much right on the edge of the south side.
1:27.0	What you always hear in the news about the violence in Chicago.
1:30.6	We are on the front lines and we see an unfortunate amount of
1:35.6	problem that are kids, adults, et cetera.
1:38.5	Now we started about two and a half years ago with myself
1:42.4	and my seven partners and from the get-go we had to teach the
1:47.2	university how to deal with trauma how to triage patients how to expeditiously move them
1:53.9	about the nurses the ICU nurses all the way down to how we discharge them make make sure they come back. That's been incredible
2:02.9	to a half your turn so far. Now, prior to the program starting, the majority of patients who
2:09.3	were injured on the south side, they were sent to other hospitals. Now, is it true that
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