Pediatric Surgery Week #3: Surgical History
Behind The Knife: The Surgery Podcast
Behind The Knife: The Surgery Podcast
4.8 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 17 November 2019
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Rounding out our week of interviews with pediatric surgeons who have unique stories, Woo and Meghana chatted with Dr. Don Nakayama about surgical history. He provides multiple narratives about the history of our field, and it's an episode you don't want to miss!
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| 0:38.8 | Behind the Knife, The Surgery Podcast, where we take a behind the scenes intimate look at surgery |
| 0:46.1 | from leaders in the Knife. Today we have a very special episode on the history of surgery with Dr. Don Nakayama. |
| 1:08.0 | Dr. Nakayama is a pediatric surgeon and professor of surgery at the University of North Carolina. |
| 1:13.0 | He completed his medical and surgical training at the University of California, San Francisco, |
| 1:18.0 | followed by his Pediatric Fellowship at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. |
| 1:22.0 | He also earned a Masters in Business Administration from the UNC Keenan Flagler Business School. |
| 1:27.9 | If his name sounds familiar, it is because Dr. Nakeama is the surgical historian of our time. He has numerous publications in |
| 1:34.2 | journals and is very active in APSA and ACS online communities with very |
| 1:38.9 | interesting stories to tell. We are excited to have him join us to share a few of these. Welcome Dr. |
| 1:44.2 | Nachayama. Thank you very much. It's a pleasure and honor. |
| 1:47.1 | Sir, the pleasure and honor is all ours. So to kick things off, why don't you tell |
| 1:51.8 | us more about yourself, where you're from, where you |
| 1:54.1 | trained. What inspired you to go into surgery? |
| 1:57.5 | I grew up in Denver and it was in Denver that I actually got a job at the Denver Post, |
| 2:01.7 | which is the daily newspaper there and I was adopted |
| 2:04.9 | by a Japanese American journalist who was associate editor there and at that time my father |
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