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

from leaders in the field. All right, welcome back to the Hind the Knife's Oil Board review series.

My name is Patrick Borgoff and I'm joined today by Craig Brown.

Craig is a general surgery resident at the University of Michigan, and he also happens to be one of the smartest people I know so I'm thrilled to have him on the show today Craig you want to say hi

Yeah, sounds good. Thanks everybody for having me on here. I'm super excited. Good good. Let get started. Today we're going to cover the large intestine and the score, core diagnoses and conditions for the large intestine include appendicitis, C-diff, ischemic collitis, colon cancer, colon polyps,

volulous and obstruction, diparticulitis, GI bleeding, and ulcer of colitis.

The advanced diseases and conditions includes functional disorders of the

intestine and polyposis syndromes.

The core operations and procedures include appendectomy, partial collectomy, total and subtotal

collectomy, colostomy closure.

All right, one thing, so we're gonna start here

in a moment, one thing I want to put in a,

actually not so shameless plug for a really good friend of mine's book.

It's called Chasing My Cure, a doctor's race to turn hope into action. It's by Dr. Dave Faganbaum.

He, if you enjoy books by a tool, go one day or if you read when breath becomes air this is something you

would really enjoy it is a absolutely incredible read hopefully we can get a link

to in the show note that I would recommend you check it out.

It's something that's pretty phenomenal.

But getting back to the show, we will start off with, what do you think Craig Colin Cancer will do?

Yeah, sure.

Okay. So for colon cancer you talk about screening

up front so for average risk patients we start screening at 50 typically stop

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