Oh, hey, it's that guy who watched your stuff at the library so you could go to the bathroom,

Allie Ward, and this is Ologies. And the lifeblood of the show is asking smart people,

sometimes not smart questions. So let's take a trip through your vascular system for

phlebology, which you will learn in a few moments is not a good name for the episode, because it

does not totally encompass what this ologist does. So we had to figure some else out.

And this guest is a vascular surgeon.

And from what I understand, that is a very difficult job.

And vascular surgeons have been called the surgeon's surgeon.

So if you're a surgeon who can impress surgeons,

I'm going to want to come to your workplace and ask you all about it.

So this doctor is a clinical associate professor of vascular surgery at NYU Langone Hospital in Brooklyn,

where she did her fellowship and residency after getting her MD from Boston University,

and it said that what inspired her was having grown up in Kenya,

where she saw access to high quality surgical care, not readily accessible.

So helping people who's always

been important to her, and she's very good at it. So she's been on my list to help us learn about

our circulation, and we're going to get there in a minute. But first, thank you to all the patrons

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