This is PediCast.

Welcome to Pediacast, a pediatric podcast for parents.

And now, direct from the campus of nationwide children's, here is your host, Dr. Mike.

Hello, everyone, and welcome. Once again to Pediacast. It is a pediatric podcast for moms and dads.

This is Dr. Mike, coming to you from nationwide at Children's Hospital.

We're in Columbus, Ohio.

It's episode 494 for June 30th, 2021.

We're calling this one Interventional Radiology for Kids.

We have another interesting and hopefully fantastic episode of

PDACast for you this week as we explore the field of pediatric interventional radiology.

And this is a topic particularly interesting for me as both a general pediatrician and as an

emergency and urgent care pediatrician,

because I've personally seen this field of medicine benefit kids and families in remarkable ways,

and I'm eager to explore and perhaps share my enthusiasm for this field of medicine with all of you.

We're going to explore interventional radiology with

Dr. Leah Braswell. She is an interventional radiologist at nationwide children's hospital.

And interventional radiologists, in my opinion, are really cool people. They're radiologists,

yes, so they use technology and they look at images. But they also have to know the ends and outs of many medical conditions and possess the skills of a surgeon.

So interventional radiology kind of lives at the crossroads where radiology and medicine and surgery all intersect with one another.

So it's an uber cool field and one that is growing

in popularity among medical learners who are making career decisions and among practicing

physicians who use their services and among patients and families who benefit from the skill

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