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🗓️ 27 August 2018
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Dr. John Lawrence is has lived an interesting medical career. Currently a Pediatric Surgeon practicing at Maimonides Medical Center in New York, Dr. Lawrence has been with Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) or Doctors without Borders since 2009. He has visited the limits of the earth providing medical care abroad.
We discuss his background, his career with MSF, and most importantly his profound experiences. Dr. Lawrence also walks us through performing a Caesarian section as part of Tips and Tricks. Something that is foreign to many current General Surgeons.
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0:00.0 | Behind the knife, the Surgery Podcast, where we take a behind the scenes intimate look at |
0:05.4 | surgery from leaders Behind the Knife. Today we have Dr. John |
0:25.1 | Lawrence joining us on the podcast. Dr. Lawrence is originally from Illinois. He |
0:29.9 | completed his undergraduate and medical school at Dartmouth. |
0:33.0 | He then completed a family practice internship, |
0:36.0 | after which he worked on a Navajo reservation |
0:38.2 | in Arizona as a general medical officer. |
0:41.3 | He resumed his training in general surgery at the University of Rochester, followed |
0:45.2 | by a pediatric surgery fellowship at St. Christopher's Hospital in Philadelphia. |
0:50.2 | He's held academic appointments at the University of Iowa, |
0:53.3 | University of Vermont, and is currently staff at Memonidates Medical |
0:57.1 | Center. |
0:58.2 | He's been a part of Medicine Sans Frontiers, |
1:01.2 | or Doctors Without Borders, 2009 and has completed eight surgical |
1:05.3 | mission trips to the Central African Republic, Ivory Coast, Haiti, Syria, and the Democratic |
1:11.4 | Republic of Congo. |
1:13.0 | Welcome Dr. Lawrence. |
1:14.4 | Thank you so much, Megan. |
1:18.1 | So can you tell us a bit about your background? |
1:22.4 | Certainly, I'd be happy happy to and I think you, you know, highlighted it pretty, pretty completely with the introduction, |
1:31.0 | but I took a bit of a I think I would say indirect route into surgery so I had |
1:37.7 | been a public health service scholarship recipient when I was in medical school and it was a wonderful opportunity for me. |
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