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Behind The Knife: The Surgery Podcast

Medicine, Science, Education, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 14 May 2026

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Can an algorithm actually give you your life back? A recent Stanford paper revealed that using large language models at home yields massive efficiency gains—up to 176%. For busy surgeons drowning in clinical duties and administrative bloat, every reclaimed second is priceless.
In this episode of Behind the Knife, Ayman and Patrick sit down with Christian Péan—an orthopedic trauma surgeon, Duke’s Executive Director of AI and IT Innovation, and the Founder/CEO of RevelAi Health. He’s also a Core faculty member at the Duke-Margolis Institute for Health Policy. Dr. Péan breaks down how naturally skeptical surgeons can adopt AI to save time, shares his granular daily workflow, and discusses his mission to cure physician burnout through tech. Whether you are a tech enthusiast or a total skeptic, this episode gives you the practical playbook for integrating AI into your surgical career today.

Hosts:
- Ayman Ali, MD
Ayman Ali is a PGY-4 at Duke Hospital and current Behind the Knife fellow.
- Patrick Georgoff, MD @georgoff
Patrick Georgoff is faculty in the Department of Surgery at the Duke University School of Medicine where he serves as an Associate Professor of Trauma, Acute, and Critical Care Surgery and Trauma Medical Director. He is a leading educator and creator for Behind the Knife, a premier digital education platform and podcast advancing surgical training through innovative, high-yield multimedia content.
- Christian Péan, MD @DrChristianPean
Christian Péan is faculty in the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at the Duke University School of Medicine where he serves as Executive Director of AI and IT Innovation. He is the Founder and CEO of RevelAi Health, a health technology company advancing the transition to value-based care in musculoskeletal health with conversational AI. He is also author of the popular substack Techy Surgeon.
https://www.revelaihealth.com/
https://techysurgeon.substack.com/

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0:00.0	Behind the Night, The Surgery Podcast, Relevant and Engaging Content designed to Help You Dominate the day. Thank you all for your continue listening of Behind the Knife. While many long-term listeners of BTK have used our podcast and resources while in medical school, we now provide resources tailored to medical student general surgery curriculum.
0:45.9	Over the past 10 years of BTK and in our day jobs, we have dialed in the specifics of what medical students need to dominate their surgery rotation. It contains about everything you
0:54.8	need to include review text, video, audio segments, pictures, reviewing over about 17 disciplines
1:01.1	that you encounter during your time of service. Enjoy the series and dominate the day.
1:06.6	Welcome back to Behind the Knife. I'm Iman O'Le, a P2i4 and Behind the Knife Fellow here at Duke.
1:11.9	Last month, Stanford's Institute for Economic Policy Research released a working paper that showed approximately 76 to 176% efficiency gains in productivity for home tasks by adopters of large language models.
1:25.3	There's a lot to say about this, but for busy clinicians,
1:28.2	every second that we can get back in our personal lives is cherished. So how can we start?
1:33.8	Well, today, Dr. Patrick Georgeoff, co-director of Behind the Knife and Trauma Medical Director at Duke,
1:38.3	and myself are excited to talk to an early adopter and truly an AI power user, Dr. Christian Payon.
1:45.1	Dr. Payon is an orthopedic trauma surgeon at Duke, faculty member at the Duke Margulahist Institute
1:50.4	for Health Policy, and founder of Revel AI Health, a company that targets many of the tasks
1:55.4	that directly lead to physician burnout. And he's also the author of the substack, the techie surgeon. Yes. I'm excited about this
2:03.8	one. So the pace of AI development is dizzy, right? Every single week, there's a breathless new
2:10.7	proclamation about what AI can do. And it's really exciting, but it's also extraordinarily
2:15.8	overwhelming, especially if you
2:17.6	have to be a busy surgeon.
2:18.7	You feel like you're getting left behind.
2:20.5	You can't keep up.
2:21.9	And in some ways, it's at odds with what we do as surgeons.
2:25.9	We strive to be very thoughtful, very meticulous, very sake.
2:29.8	Let me do the same thing over and over again because we know it's going to work for our
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