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Behind The Knife: The Surgery Podcast

#APSA50: Pediatric Surgery's Historical Figures - Keith Ashcraft

Behind The Knife: The Surgery Podcast

Behind The Knife: The Surgery Podcast

Science, Health & Fitness, Medicine, Education

4.81.4K Ratings

🗓️ 2 June 2019

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

Woo Do (@woosongdo) and Meghana Kashyap (@PubMEG) cover the American Pediatric Surgical Association's 50th Anniversary Meeting. In this episode, we hear from Dr. Keith Ashcraft, one of pediatric surgery's key historical figures.

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

0:36.1

from leaders in the Knife. This is Wu Doe here with

0:54.8

Megan and Keshup at the 50th anniversary meeting of the American Pediatric

0:58.5

Surgical Association. Today we have the distinct honor of sitting with Dr. Keith Ashcraft.

1:04.0

He is a former surgeon-in-chief and head of pediatric surgery at Children's Mercy Hospital in Kansas City from 1994 to 1999.

1:12.0

He was also a former chairman of the surgical section of the AAP

1:16.0

as well as past president of multiple organizations

1:19.0

to include APSA and the World Federation of the Associations of Pediatric Surgery.

1:24.0

Dr Ashraf, it's an honor, thank you.

1:26.0

It's an honor to be here.

1:28.0

Thank you for having me.

1:30.0

So we really want to hear from you about where you're from and how did you get into surgery,

1:37.1

pediatric surgery, what was your path?

1:39.9

Well I was, I'm from a small town in Kansas, town of 2,000 people where my father ran the newspaper.

1:47.8

And I thought for a while I was going to be a newspaperman, weekly newspaper, but then I was very bored with life in a small town and enjoyed working on my brother-in-law's farm during the summers,

2:01.0

at which time I sort of got the idea that I might want to be a veterinarian.

2:05.0

Now I don't know why I got that idea because the only good horse is a dead horse and

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