Dr. Brian Lima. What it Takes to be a Heart Surgeon. Episode 344 with The Real Brad Lea (TRBL)
Dropping Bombs
Brad Lea
4.9 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 11 February 2021
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
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Brian is a cardiac surgeon dedicated to the compassionate delivery of the most advanced heart care. As a recognized authority on surgical therapies for advanced heart failure, Brian is also very passionate about clinical innovation, research, and education, having published nearly 80 articles in peer reviewed journals, numerous book chapters, and also presented at several national and international conferences. Check out Dr. Lima by going to his website, www.Brianlimamd.com
00:00 Intro
01:27 How did Dr. Lima pick the HEART
02:02 Follow Dr. Lima!
04:05 Who is lucky to get a new heart
07:21 How much schooling has to occur for this
07:58 Dr. Lima's Book Heart to Beat is out and ready for your purchase on amazon
10:23 What can you do to maintain a healthy heart?
15:06 The mindset of a surgeon during the operation
16:21 Bomb One: We must address heart failure
22:00 The money in the work
29:11 Bomb Two: There's a price to getting to where you want to in life if it's worthwhile
31:35 Bomb Three: Don't overthink it, trust the process and take the shot.
34:24 The trials and tribulations of starting a practice
34:36 Bomb Four: Always be closing
38:20 The story of the heart
43:00 Is there such a thing as a "broken heart?"
46:14 The stereotype of the surgeon
46:44 Bomb Five: Blaming others for your failure is the way to keep failing
48:56 Advice to other heart surgeons
49:46 Bomb Six: Be likable and respectful; people want to wanna work with you
53:16 Attention #BOMBSQUAD -- pay attention!
55:00 What chest pain feels like
01:01:15 Everything in moderation
01:08:27 Focus on what you can control
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Listen up or run |
| 0:03.5 | for cover |
| 0:08.4 | From the people who have attitude of people who need the real |
| 0:13.9 | Bradley is dropping |
| 0:23.2 | What it is Bradley back again with another episode of dropping bombs today folks? |
| 0:28.7 | I know every day. I tell you I got a real treat for you, but |
| 0:32.4 | Today I actually do it's Dr. Brian Lima. What's up doctor? |
| 0:38.1 | How are you Brad? Dude, I'm going. I'm extremely impressed. Number one with you. Brian is a cardiac surgeon |
| 0:45.2 | Which is unbelievable. You're literally you take hearts out of bodies and swap them |
| 0:52.0 | Don't you it's great. Wouldn't I couldn't imagine myself doing anything else? I mean, but like think about that |
| 0:58.2 | Like most people's jobs or you know, whatever |
| 1:01.8 | It doesn't matter. It doesn't get much more impressive than you cut out hearts and |
| 1:08.1 | Transfer them to another body and get them beating again |
| 1:13.5 | It's not crazy or what you see at once man and I was hooked that was it dude like how did you pick? |
| 1:22.3 | cardiac surgery |
| 1:24.7 | Well, my my dad had a heart attack when I was really young and that really |
| 1:30.6 | Spooked me, spooked our family. He got through it |
| 1:33.0 | But I'd always kind of had that in the back of my mind. Then when I finally got to med school |
| 1:37.5 | I just those are the the surgeons the doctors are looked up to the most |
| 1:40.9 | I mean, I just it's the longest period of training. It's almost like the same way |
| 1:44.5 | I guess you would think why some guys want to be a Navy seal |
| 1:47.4 | Like what's the hardest craziest most intense thing and that's what I felt heart surgery was and I was like |
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