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Revisited: E126 Lauren Kirwan on OR Nursing
May 26, 2026
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E193 - Money, Medicine, and Designing a “Good Life” Mark Soth on Achieving Physician Financial Independence
May 12, 2026
57m 42s
E192 - CMPA x Cold Steel: Theatre Arts and the Pursuit of A Better OR Culture
Apr 28, 2026
51m 08s
E191 - Six Lessons of Leadership: A Conversation with Varun Kapila
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E190 - The Anatomy of Expectations Can We Define What A Surgeon's Job Should Look Like
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| 5/26/26 | ![]() Revisited: E126 Lauren Kirwan on OR Nursing | In honor of National Nursing Week in Canada, which is May 11th to May 17th, we are re-releasing an early episode with Lauren Kiwan, nurse clinician for general surgery at the Foothills Medical Centre. Lauren shares what surgeons can do to improve the OR. Revisit this important episode with us.___Lauren Kirwan is the nurse clinician for general surgery at the Foothills Medical Centre. She is currently finishing up her nurse practitioner degree. We wanted to ask Lauren her thoughts about what it means to be an OR nurse and what she wishes surgeons would do to make the OR environment better. We also hear about the impact of COVID19 on our nursing colleagues. We’d love to hear from our nurse listeners – what are some things that make your day or make you mad in the operating room? Email us at podcast.cjs@gmail.com with your thoughts and comments. Links:1. Melinda Davis on the Anesthetist - Surgeon relationship: https://soundcloud.com/cjs-podcast/e40-melinda-davis-on-career-counseling-and-the-anesthetist-surgeon-relationship2. Atul Gawande paper on Safe Surgery Checklist implementation in South Carolina. Perception of Safety of Surgical Practice Among Operating Room Personnel From Survey Data Is Associated With All-cause 30-day Postoperative Death Rate in South Carolina. https://journals.lww.com/annalsofsurgery/Abstract/2017/10000/Perception_of_Safety_of_Surgical_Practice_Among.14.aspx | 53m 54s | ||||||
| 5/12/26 | ![]() E193 - Money, Medicine, and Designing a “Good Life” Mark Soth on Achieving Physician Financial Independence | I have a confession to make. I kind of felt that to talk about money or to be really into financial planning was akin to being the Wolf of Wall Street, where the only real principle was how much money I could make. After this week’s conversation with Dr. Mark Soth, I think of financial planning in a completely different way. In fact, I would argue that Dr. Soth provided on this episode some of the best advice on how to live in a truly fulfilling way.Dr. Soth is an intensivist at McMaster University. He has done significant work in the space of physician financial independence. He has a website called The Loonie Doctor as well as a limited run podcast called The Money Scope podcast. In this episode I basically ask Mark all the finance related questions I could think of, ranging from the utility of professional corporations in 2026 to tools for financial tracking. Most importantly, Mark explores how financial planning can help us all to life “the good life”. Check out all the resources and links from Mark in the show notes. Links:The Wealthy BarberThe Money Scope Podcast The Loonie Doctor's Bookshelf : Mark’s favorite finance booksbeyond MD podcast with Dr. Yatin ChadhaBreaking Bad Debt - Dr. Steph - YouTubeReboot Your Portfolio by Dan Bortolotti | 57m 42s | ||||||
| 4/28/26 | ![]() E192 - CMPA x Cold Steel: Theatre Arts and the Pursuit of A Better OR Culture | While we hope that none of us “botch a surgery”, medico-legal concerns are issues that affect most surgeons at some point in their careers. Previously on the podcast, Dr. Richard Mimeault and Liise Honey spoke to us about the landscape of medico-legal concerns in surgery, and the anatomy of a lawsuit. In this episode, we talk about the CMPA's innovative approach to try to prevent errors from happening in the first place. Richard Mimeault and Elisabeth Normand join us to talk about "Theatre Arts", a workshop developed by the CMPA to help OR teams improve the quality of the care, and most importantly, improve the culture and dynamics of the team. In this episode we talk about the Theatre Arts workshop and how improving culture may have profound impacts on patient safety and satisfaction. Links:Theatre Arts workshop: https://www.cmpa-acpm.ca/en/education-events/workshops/workshop-theatre-artsCMPA x Cold Steel on Medicolegal risks for surgeons: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Mkw68prEP0CMPA x Cold Steel – the Anatomy of a Lawsuit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRUh95LauFw Contact the CMPA: https://www.cmpa-acpm.ca/en/connect/contact-us | 51m 08s | ||||||
| 4/14/26 | ![]() E191 - Six Lessons of Leadership: A Conversation with Varun Kapila | Dr. Varun Kapila is a vascular surgeon in Brampton, Ontario. He is the author of “Six Lessons for Everyday Leadership: From the Operating Room Into Everyday Life, What Surgery Taught Me About Leadership That Can Be Applied by Everyone”. In this episode we delve into Dr. Kapila’s thoughts on leadership and why everyone can be a leader in their own lives.Links:https://www.amazon.ca/Six-Lessons-Everyday-Leadership-Operating-ebook/dp/B0GQWHNYFS https://learn.hms.harvard.edu/insights/learner-stories/driving-system-level-change-through-surgical-leadership https://ontariohealth.ca/clinical/cardiac-stroke-vascular/abdominal-aortic-aneurysm-programhttps://www.cmaj.ca/content/196/4/E112 https://www.thestar.com/news/hes-not-young-hes-my-doctor/article_bcec69e9-2822-54cf-bed1-c2322cefc558.html | 46m 43s | ||||||
| 4/7/26 | ![]() E190 - The Anatomy of Expectations Can We Define What A Surgeon's Job Should Look Like | For a newly graduated surgical resident, one of the most interesting and perplexing question that many folks have to deal with is a surprisingly simple one: what should a full-time surgical job look like? For many of us, we simply looked at what our predecessors job looked like, and modeled our own careers after them. This meant ensuring that our schedules were jam-packed with clinical activities every day, without much consideration for other aspects of our career (such as call and research, for example).At the beginning of March, the American College of Surgeons released a framework of standards of what they think reasonable expectations are for a surgeon’s job. We have the link to the paper in the shownotes. The ACS is the one of the largest surgical organizations in North America, and this standard framework they have put out is really a statement on what they think is necessary to ensure that surgeons have a sustainable career. They put out standards for call, access to the OR, access to clinic, resource access, inpatient census, clinical support, and even fatigue mitigation.Dr. Pat Murphy, trauma and acute care surgeon at the Medical College of Wisconsin, was a previous guest on the show to talk about his work trying to define what a full time acute care surgeon should look like. He actually brought this framework to our attention, and we invited him to join us once again on Cold Steel to discuss the implications of such a framework.We would love to hear your thoughts. Send us an email at podcast.cjs@gmail.com, or find us on X (@colsteelpod, @ameerfarooq & @pbatesmurphy)Resources from this episode:Wood, Douglas E MD, FACS, FRCSEd; Wolinsky, Philip R MD, FACS2; Dodgion, Christopher M MD, MSPH, MBA, FACS3; Farmer, Diana Lee MD4; Gantt, Nancy L MD, FACS5; Napolitano, Lena M MD, FACS, MAMSE6; Timmons, Shelly D MD, PhD, FACS. FAANS7; Welsh, David J MD, MBA, FACS8; Winfield, Robert D MD, FACS9; Bura, Connie BA10; Essig, Rachael MD11; Turner, Patricia L MD, MBA, FACS10. Developing Specialty-Specific Workplace Standards for Surgeons: A Framework to Support Sustainable Surgical Careers. Journal of the American College of Surgeons ():10.1097/XCS.0000000000001880, March 03, 2026. | DOI: 10.1097/XCS.0000000000001880https://www.facs.org/for-medical-professionals/news-publications/news-and-articles/acs-brief/march-3-2026-issue/acs-releases-workplace-standards-framework-to-support-sustainable-surgical-careers/Pat Murphy on Cold Steel: https://www.canjsurg.ca/content/e184-pat-murphy-workforce-planning-acute-care-surgeryhttps://calnewport.com/ | 39m 37s | ||||||
| 3/17/26 | ![]() E189 - The Heart of the Matter: Paul Fedak on the Pursuit of Balance and Excellence | Paul Fedak is a cardiac surgeon and translational scientist at the University of Calgary. He has written and spoken about what it means to pursue excellence and what it might cost us. Dr. Fedak unexpectedly had to cut short his clinical career as a surgeon due to spinal cord issues. The result has been a powerful exploration about identity, meaning, burnout and the pursuit of excellence. This is a conversation about that pursuit.Bio: https://profiles.ucalgary.ca/paul-fedak Links:https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-as-a-heart-surgeon-i-chased-excellence-it-cost-me-my-body-and-my-mind/http://paulfedak.com/https://www.ted.com/talks/paul_fedak_beyond_mastery_how_a_heart_surgeon_found_his_own_hearthttps://calgaryherald.com/opinion/columnists/opinion-the-mountain-decides-who-goes-and-who-stays | 53m 01s | ||||||
| 2/17/26 | ![]() E188 - Systematic Review of Why I Changed My Rank List 14 Times The CaRMS Rank List Episode | It's that time of year again. Can you sense it? The anticipation, the anxiety, the dread, the wracking of heart and head? Yes, it's almost time for final year Canadian medical students across the country to submit their rank lists to CaRMS.On this episode we explore the history of CaRMS and the underlying matching algorithms.We then talk about some of our top tips when building your CaRMS rank list.What do you think? How did you make your rank list? Send us an email at podcast.cjs@gmail.com.Links:Young TA. Teaching medical students to lie. The disturbing contradiction: medical ideals and the resident-selection process. CMAJ. 1997 Jan 15;156(2):219-22. PMID: 9012725; PMCID: PMC1226912. https://pmc-ncbi-nlm-nih-gov.proxy.queensu.ca/articles/PMC1226912/ https://pmc-ncbi-nlm-nih-gov.proxy.queensu.ca/articles/PMC1226912/Roth AE. The origins, history, and design of the resident match. JAMA. 2003 Feb 19;289(7):909-12. doi: 10.1001/jama.289.7.909. PMID: 12588278.https://impact.stanford.edu/article/how-does-applied-economics-maximize-kidney-transplantsCal Newport’s books: https://calnewport.com/writing/ | 24m 39s | ||||||
| 1/14/26 | ![]() Bonus Episode from EBRS Webinar: "Structured Exercise after Adjuvant Chemotherapy for Colon Cancer" | This Evidence Based Reviews in Surgery (EBRS) webinar was filmed November 2025. This webinar was moderated by Dr. Alison Laws and Dr. Ameer Farooq, and featured panelists Dr. Nicole Culos-Reed, Dr. Christopher Booth and Dr. Bishal Gyawali.In this EBRS webinar, we discussed Structured Exercise after Adjuvant Chemotherapy for Colon Cancer (Courneya et al., 2025).Links:Courneya KS, Vardy JL, O’Callaghan CJ, et al. Structured Exercise after Adjuvant Chemotherapy for Colon Cancer. N Engl J Med. 2025;393(1):13-25. doi:10.1056/NEJMoa2502760 | 57m 59s | ||||||
| 1/14/26 | ![]() Bonus Episode from EBRS Webinar: "Getting out of the bay faster: Assessing trauma team performance using trauma video review"" | This Evidence Based Reviews in Surgery (EBRS) webinar was filmed July 2025. This webinar was moderated by Dr. Kelly Vogt and Dr. Chad Ball, and featured panelists Dr. Bourke Tillmann and Dr. Emilie Joos.In this EBRS webinar, we discussed Getting out of the bay faster: Assessing trauma team performance using trauma video review" (Maiga et al., 2024).Links:Maiga AW, Vella MA, Appelbaum RD, et al. Getting out of the bay faster: Assessing trauma team performance using trauma video review. J Trauma Acute Care Surg. 2024;96(1):76-84. doi:10.1097/TA.0000000000004168 | 57m 34s | ||||||
| 1/14/26 | ![]() Bonus Episode from EBRS Webinar: "The INSEMA Trial: Axillary Surgery in Breast Cancer & The SOUND Randomized Control Trial" | This Evidence Based Reviews in Surgery (EBRS) webinar was filmed May 2025. This webinar was moderated by Dr. Alison Laws and Dr. Kerollos Wanis, and featured panelists Dr. Stephanie Wong, Dr. Sarah Knowles and Dr. Rebecca Warburton.In this EBRS webinar, we discussed Axillary Surgery in Breast Cancer--Primary Results of the INSEMA Trial (Reimer et al., 2024) & Sentinel Lymph Node Biopsy vs No Axillary Surgery in Patients With Small Breast Cancer and Negative Results on Ultrasonography of Axillary Lymph Nodes (Gentilini et al., 2023).Links:Gentilini, O. D., Botteri, E., Sangalli, C., Galimberti, V., Porpiglia, M., Agresti, R., Luini, A., Viale, G., Cassano, E., Peradze, N., Toesca, A., Massari, G., Sacchini, V., Munzone, E., Leonardi, M. C., Cattadori, F., Di Micco, R., Esposito, E., Sgarella, A., Cattaneo, S., … SOUND Trial Group (2023). Sentinel Lymph Node Biopsy vs No Axillary Surgery in Patients With Small Breast Cancer and Negative Results on Ultrasonography of Axillary Lymph Nodes: The SOUND Randomized Clinical Trial. JAMA oncology, 9(11), 1557–1564. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamaoncol.2023.3759Reimer, T., Stachs, A., Veselinovic, K., Kühn, T., Heil, J., Polata, S., Marmé, F., Müller, T., Hildebrandt, G., Krug, D., Ataseven, B., Reitsamer, R., Ruth, S., Denkert, C., Bekes, I., Zahm, D. M., Thill, M., Golatta, M., Holtschmidt, J., Knauer, M., … Gerber, B. (2025). Axillary Surgery in Breast Cancer – Primary Results of the INSEMA Trial. The New England journal of medicine, 392(11), 1051–1064. https://doi.org/10.1056/NEJMoa2412063 | 1h 05m 15s | ||||||
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| 1/14/26 | ![]() Bonus Episode from EBRS Webinar: "Safe Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy: Practices, Preparation, and Prevention" | This Evidence Based Reviews in Surgery (EBRS) webinar was filmed January 2022, in collaboration with UNITAR. This webinar was moderated by Dr. Chad Ball and Dr. Neel Detta, and featured panelists Dr. Keith Lillemoe, Dr. Majella Doyle and Dr. Jeff Barkun. In this EBRS webinar, we discussed Safe Cholecystectomy Multi-society Practice Guideline and State of the Art Consensus Conference on Prevention of Bile Duct Injury During Cholecystectomy (Brunt et al., 2020).Links:Brunt LM, Deziel DJ, Telem DA, et al. Safe Cholecystectomy Multi-society Practice Guideline and State of the Art Consensus Conference on Prevention of Bile Duct Injury During Cholecystectomy. Ann Surg. 2020;272(1):3-23. doi:10.1097/SLA.0000000000003791 | 1h 05m 25s | ||||||
| 1/14/26 | ![]() Bonus Episode from EBRS Webinar: "Restrictive Strategy vs Usual Care for Cholecystectomy in Patients With Abdominal Pain and Gallstones" | This Evidence Based Reviews in Surgery (EBRS) webinar was filmed February 2025. This webinar was moderated by Dr. Kelly Vogt and Dr. Chad Ball, and featured panelists Dr. James Byrne, Dr. Kimberly Bertens and Dr. Sean Gregg.In this EBRS webinar, we discussed Restrictive Strategy vs Usual Care for Cholecystectomy in Patients with Abdominal Pain and Gallstones: 5-Year Follow-Up of the SECURE Randomized Clinical Trial (Comes et al., 2024).Links:Comes DJ, Wennmacker SZ, Latenstein CSS, et al. Restrictive Strategy vs Usual Care for Cholecystectomy in Patients With Abdominal Pain and Gallstones: 5-Year Follow-Up of the SECURE Randomized Clinical Trial. JAMA Surg. 2024;159(11):1235-1243. doi:10.1001/jamasurg.2024.3080 | 57m 53s | ||||||
| 12/23/25 | ![]() E187 - Krista Goulding on Pelvic Sarcomas, 3D Printing, and What Patients Really Want | The William Ersil Research day invited guest and moderator for 2025 was Dr. Krista Goulding. Dr. Goulding is an Orthopedic Surgeon at Mayo Clinic Arizona, where she specializes in caring for patients with sarcomas and other cancerous and non-cancerous tumors of the musculoskeletal system. Dr. Goulding’s expertise is in limb preservation surgery using innovative techniques (synthetic and bone transplants, 3D printed and patient-specific implants, joint replacement). Her goal is to cure cancer while preserving function and quality of life. She is involved in research on a national and international scale, and is currently researching ways to improving surgical, oncologic and health-related quality of life outcomes for patients with malignant bone and soft tissue cancers.In this “How I Built This” segment of the research day, we explored Dr. Goulding’s career.Links:What are the 2-year survivorship outcomes of custom hemipelvis reconstruction after hemipelvectomy and revision arthroplasty? The evolution of a custom ilium "monoflange". https://pubmed-ncbi-nlm-nih-gov.proxy.queensu.ca/36255157/Košir U, Denis-Larocque G, Tsimicalis A, Freeman C, Turcotte RE, Cury F, Alcindor T, Goulding K. Psychological functioning, coping styles and their relationship to appraisal of physical limitations following invasive surgical procedures for soft-tissue sarcoma: A qualitative study. J Surg Oncol. 2020 Jun;121(8):1266-1275. doi: 10.1002/jso.25915. Epub 2020 Mar 27. PMID: 32221986. | 30m 01s | ||||||
| 11/18/25 | ![]() E186 - Adnan Alseidi on Rethinking Surgical Education | Surgery has never been more complicated. The variety of surgical approaches and the complexity of treatment continue to grow exponentially, yet in many institutions, surgical training has not really changed. Dr. Adnan Alseidi, our guest for this episode, is trying to change that. Dr. Adnan Alseidi is a liver and pancreas surgeon at UCSF and is the associate dean of assessment, improvement, and accreditation. He recently gave the Langer lecture at the Canadian Surgical Forum in Montreal this year about surgical education and the path from novice to master. This episode was really a moment for us to ask all our burning questions about surgical education. What are the phases of mastery? Should we really be aiming for mastery? And how do we create trust between attending and trainees?We’d love to hear your thoughts and comments, so email us at podcast.cjs@gmail.com.Links:Medical school accreditation is outdated. WSJ. https://www.wsj.com/opinion/medical-school-accreditation-is-outdated-holds-back-innovation-nyu-98fe80bdhttps://www.canadiansurgeryforum.com/biographiesAn Integrative Model of Organizational Trust. Roger C. Mayer, James H. Davis, F. David Schoorman. The Academy of Management Review, Vol. 20, No. 3 (Jul., 1995), pp. 709-734 (26 pages). https://www.jstor.org/stable/258792Ericsson. https://share.google/bRhcSSC7sKKp9bX9bThe Five-Stage Model of Adult Skill Acquisition. Dreyfus model. https://share.google/2GSuypiGKExQMeMPXWicked problems! Horst W. J. Rittel & Melvin M. Webber . Dilemmas in a general theory of planningThe Book Of Joy: Lasting Happiness In A Changing World. Dalai Lama,Desmond Tutu,Douglas Carlton Abrams | 34m 55s | ||||||
| 11/4/25 | ![]() E185 - Teresa Purzner on Developing a Cure for Pediatric Brain Tumors, Entrepreneurship, and Design-Thinking in Healthcare | Dr. Teresa Purzner MD PhD FRCSC is a clinician scientist neurosurgeon with a special interest in neuroncology and general neurosurgery. She completed her residency training at the University of Toronto, and her PhD training at Stanford University. Her lab, run jointly with her husband Dr. James Purzner, is focused on interdisciplinary approaches to identifying novel drug targets for brain cancer as well as the translation of promising new drug targets into human-ready therapeutics. Her work has led to the identification of a critical new drug target in the brain tumor medulloblastoma – a discovery that she has since translated into a novel drug for both brain cancer and skin cancer, currently being tested in phase 1 and phase 2 clinical trials. This work has resulted in her being named a Stanford Interdisciplinary Graduate fellow, Biox fellow and SPARK fellow, and has earned her both national and international recognition including the Annual Award of the American Academy of Neurological Surgery, the K.G. McKenzie prize for Basic Science Research, AANS Louise Eisenhardt Award and the Neurosurgery Research and Education Fellowship.She is a mom, an entrepreneur, and design-thinker, having created her own baby food company as well as redesigned the Integrated Brain Tumor Program. Links:Integrated Brain Tumor Program: https://surgery.queensu.ca/administration/announcements/integrative-brain-tumor-program-achieving-best-class-patient-outcomeshttps://www.ibtp.ca/purzner-labhttps://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/economy/article-how-a-neurosurgeon-used-her-entrepreneurial-background-to-revamp-a/ | 48m 21s | ||||||
| 9/30/25 | ![]() E184 - Pat Murphy on Workforce Planning in Acute Care Surgery | Dr. Patrick Murphy is a trauma and acute care surgeon at Medical College of Wisconsin. In this episode we discuss his recent paper, “Understaffed and overworked: The stark reality of acute care surgeon staffing in the United States, an Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma multicenter study.” This conversation turned into more than just a discussion around workforce planning, but also around how surgeons are compensated and surgical culture.Links:Murphy, Patrick B. MD, MPH, MSc; Coleman, Jamie J. MD; et al; The ACS Staffing Authorship Group. Understaffed and overworked: The stark reality of acute care surgeon staffing in the United States, an Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma multicenter study. Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery ():10.1097/TA.0000000000004700, July 4, 2025. | DOI: 10.1097/TA.0000000000004700 Murphy PB, Nahmias J, Bonne S, Coleman J, de Moya M. Defining the acute care surgeon: American Association for the Surgery of Trauma (AAST) panel discussion on full-time employment, compensation and career trajectory. Trauma Surg Acute Care Open. 2024 Sep 30;9(1):e001500. doi: 10.1136/tsaco-2024-001500. PMID: 39363886; PMCID: PMC11448165.Murphy PB, Coleman J, Karam B, Morris RS, Figueroa J, de Moya M. A national study defining 1.0 full-time employment in trauma and acute care surgery. J Trauma Acute Care Surg. 2022 Apr 1;92(4):648-655. doi: 10.1097/TA.0000000000003504. PMID: 34936589.Murphy PB, Coleman J, Maring M, Pokrzywa C, Deshpande D, Al Tannir AH, Biesboer EA, Morris RS, Figueroa J, de Moya M. Early career acute care surgeons' priorities and perspectives: A mixed-methods analysis to better understand full-time employment. J Trauma Acute Care Surg. 2023 Dec 1;95(6):935-942. doi: 10.1097/TA.0000000000004037. Epub 2023 Jun 15. PMID: 37418689.Smith RN, Freedberg M, Bailey J, DeMoya M, Goldberg A, Staudenmayer K. The importance and benefits of defining full-time equivalence in the field of acute care surgery. Trauma Surg Acute Care Open. 2024 Jul 4;9(1):e001307. doi: 10.1136/tsaco-2023-001307. PMID: 38974220; PMCID: PMC11227842.Robinson C, Lawless R, Zarzaur BL, Timsina L, Feliciano DV, Coleman JJ. Physiologic stress among surgeons who take in-house call. Am J Surg. 2019 Dec;218(6):1181-1184. doi: 10.1016/j.amjsurg.2019.08.023. Epub 2019 Sep 19. PMID: 31570199.Adi Kumar on Cold Steel: https://open.spotify.com/episode/52Hg2cCLGLZejD0QSfI9le?si=xSHFcSrPRdOOZ_RT_QWsAA | 36m 03s | ||||||
| 8/12/25 | ![]() E183 - Brian Cameron on Ripples from Rupununi | Dr. Brian Cameron is a retired pediatric surgeon who has spent much of his life dedicated to global surgery. In this conversation, we discuss his new book Ripples from the Rupununi: Dr. Aidun’s Healing Journey. We talk about what it takes to write a book and also discuss the book itself. Let us know in the comments or via email: Have you ever thought about writing a book? Links:E78 Brian Cameron On Global Surgery: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdetQSXBRMQRipples from the Rupununi. https://books.friesenpress.com/store/title/119734000491425890/Brian-H.-Cameron-Ripples-from-the-Rupununi Surgical training in Guyana: the next generation. Cameron BH, Martin C, Rambaran M. Can J Surg. 2015 Feb;58(1):7-9. doi: 10.1503/cjs.010414. PMID: 25621909 Free PMC article. Evaluating the long-term impact of the Trauma Team Training course in Guyana: an explanatory mixed-methods approach. Pemberton J, Rambaran M, Cameron BH. Am J Surg. 2013 Feb;205(2):119-24. doi: 10.1016/j.amjsurg.2012.08.004. Epub 2012 Dec 13. PMID: 23246285 International surgery: the development of postgraduate surgical training in Guyana. Cameron BH, Rambaran M, Sharma DP, Taylor RH. Can J Surg. 2010 Feb;53(1):11-6. PMID: 20100407 Free PMC article. Teaching in Fiji: practising medicine, coping with coups. Cameron BH. CMAJ. 1989 Apr 1;140(7):833-5. PMID: 2924235 Free PMC article. No abstract available. | 28m 53s | ||||||
| 7/29/25 | ![]() E182 - Michael Leveridge on Creating Mental Models in Your Practice | Dr. Michael Leveridge is a urologist at Queen’s University. He specializes in urologic oncology and is the editor in chief of the Canadian Urological Association Journal. We spoke to him about his career, his role as editor in chief, and how he creates mental models in his practice. In addition, Dr. Leveridge did a masterclass with us on ureteric injuries. We also watch videos together and get his thoughts on how to avoid these injuries. Check out the YouTube masterclass here: https://youtu.be/izHOSh38J7ULinks:https://cuaj.ca/index.php/journal/indexCancel half of your clinic visits* (a Halloween hot take). https://cuaj.ca/index.php/journal/article/view/8996Mental models in practice: Calculus and the future self. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35623001/ | 18m 54s | ||||||
| 7/1/25 | ![]() E181 - Campbell Roxburgh at Queen's University | Campbell Roxburgh is a consultant colorectal surgeon and Professor of Colorectal Surgical Oncology at University of Glasgow in Scotland. Mr. Roxburgh is a multi-faceted researcher, surgeon and academic. He has a large body of research in systemic inflammation and tumor response, as well as clinical trials. We were lucky enough to have him join us at Queen’s University for a week. In this talk he gave to the general surgery division, he talked about the development of robotic surgery in Scotland. What stood out for us from his talk was the deliberate, systematic approach to introducing a new technology adopted by the NHS, as opposed to the way that technology is often rolled out in North America. We also had a great time asking Campbell questions at the end of his talk, and we particularly liked his response to how to find work-life balance as a surgeon and an academic.What do you think? How should something like robotics be rolled out in Canada? Email us at podcast.cjs@gmail.com. Feel free to leave us a voicemail, and we might play your response on our next episode. Campbell Roxburgh on X: @C_RoxburghLinks:https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/cancersciences/staff/campbellroxburgh/Ingham AR, McSorley ST, McMillan DC, Mansouri D, Chong D, MacKay GJ, Wrobel A, Kong CY, Alani A, Nicholson G, Roxburgh CSD. Does robotic assisted surgery mitigate obesity related systemic inflammatory response and clinical outcomes in left sided colorectal cancer resections? J Robot Surg. 2025 Mar 5;19(1):98. doi: 10.1007/s11701-025-02261-0. PMID: 40042780; PMCID: PMC11882609.Ingham AR, Kong CY, Wong TN, McSorley ST, McMillan DC, Nicholson GA, Alani A, Mansouri D, Chong D, MacKay GJ, Roxburgh CSD. Robotic-assisted surgery for left-sided colon and rectal resections is associated with reduction in the postoperative surgical stress response and improved short-term outcomes: a cohort study. Surg Endosc. 2024 May;38(5):2577-2592. doi: 10.1007/s00464-024-10749-3. Epub 2024 Mar 18. PMID: 38498212; PMCID: PMC11078791. | 55m 57s | ||||||
| 6/17/25 | ![]() E180 - Andrea Merrill on Writing, Creativity, and Pursuing your Passions as a Surgeon | Andrea Merrill is a surgical oncologist in Charlottesville, Virginia. She is the creator of Scrubbed Out, a website dedicated to highlighting the talents and passions of surgeons and trainees outside of the operating room. As listeners will know, Chad and I have been obsessed with exploring how to be the best surgeons we can be without losing our humanity in the process. Dr. Merrill had some really important insights on how we might walk the line between being completely immersed in surgery, but also staying grounded. We also talked about several of her superb pieces of writing, including “Free Solo” and “Taylor Swift in the Operating Room”. We’d love to hear from you – what hobbies or side hustles do you have? How do you balance them with a life in surgery? Email us at podcast.cjs@gmail.com.Links:https://www.scrubbedoutsurgeon.com/Merrill AL. Free Solo Surgery. Ann Surg. 2022 Aug 1;276(2):e77-e78. doi: 10.1097/SLA.0000000000005499. Epub 2022 Jul 6. PMID: 36036994.https://kevinmd.com/2024/02/taylor-swift-in-the-operating-room-the-surgeon-who-found-strength-in-song.htmlhttps://kevinmd.com/2015/06/why-are-women-so-underrepresented-in-surgery-leadership.html | 28m 33s | ||||||
| 6/3/25 | ![]() E179 - Mohamed Belal on Being Britain's First Paralyzed Surgeon and Designing the ORs of the Future | Dr. Mohammed Bellal is a consultant urologist based out of Birmingham, UK. He specializes in complex functional reconstructive surgery. He’s also the UK’s first paralyzed surgeon. Dr. Bellal has probably one of the most powerful talks we’ve ever heard called “The Gift of Adversity”. During our conversation with him, we explore the power of fate, and how letting go of the outcomes is such a difficult but powerful life lesson we all need to learn. We also delved deeply into how Dr. Bellal has adapted to his paralysis and has come back to practice as a surgeon, and his insights on how we might design the operating rooms of the future. Links:The Gift of Adversity: https://youtu.be/uTPVvPMod2Q?si=VTn616zCI8M7oF71https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-birmingham-63586045 | 44m 00s | ||||||
| 5/20/25 | ![]() E178 - CMPA x Cold Steel Part 2 - Anatomy of a Lawsuit | In this second episode of our mini-series with the Canadian Medical Protective Association (CMPA), Richard Mimeault and Liisa Honey talk about the “Anatomy of a Lawsuit”. They talk about what you can expect if you are served with a College complaint or a lawsuit, what the process looks like, and how you can psychologically survive through it all.Links:https://www.cmpa-acpm.ca/en/education-events/elearning/anatomy-of-a-lawsuit | 30m 28s | ||||||
| 5/6/25 | ![]() E177 - Stephen Foster on Global Surgery in Angola | It’s hard to describe exactly what Dr. Stephen Foster is. Dr. Foster is a general surgeon, urologist, infectious disease doctor, entrepreneur, and missionary who has spent his career working in Angola. We caught up with Dr. Foster to talk about his life working in Angola and really to explore his thoughts on empowering non-MD providers to provide life-saving care. Dr. Foster has a fascinating biography called “The Benefit of Steel: The Life and Times of Steve Foster.” For us, the conversation with Dr. Foster has reminded us of the huge inequities that exist in the world, but also the tremendous effort of folks like Dr. Foster to make the world a better, more humane place.If you want to get in contact with Dr. Foster to support his foundation, you can find his email in our show notes.Links:Stephen Foster Email: stephen@fosterangola.ca https://www.amazon.ca/Benefit-Steel-Times-Steve-Foster/dp/B07Y4K7CM4https://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/29/opinion/sunday/nicholas-kristof-a-little-respect-for-dr-foster.html | 1h 04m 53s | ||||||
| 4/8/25 | ![]() E176 - Journal Club with David Maslove on Cash Incentives for Peer Review | Clip of Senate hearing with Robert F. Kennedy Jr.That was a clip from a Senate hearing with Robert F Kennedy Jr, who, as many listeners will know, is the current US Secretary of Health and Human Services. In 2025, many folks around the world have become interested in the way that science currently works, particularly around the process of peer review. Peer review is a process where scientific journals ask experts in the field to evaluate the validity and accuracy of articles that are submitted to the journal. There are many challenges around peer review in the modern era, and one particularly thorny one is finding reviewers who have the time and expertise to provide high-quality reviews.David Maslove is a Clinician Scientist in the Departments of Medicine and Critical Care Medicine at Queen’s University. He, along with economist Chris Cotton and a team of other researchers, recently published an article in the Journal of Critical Care Medicine entitled “Effect of Monetary Incentives on Peer Review Acceptance and Completion: A Quasi-Randomized Interventional Trial”. Dr. Maslove performed what is, in some ways, a very simple study conceptually – does paying reviewers increase the rate at which reviewers complete their reviews? We delve into this study in depth and hear Dr. Maslove’s thoughts on this really important topic.What do you think? Do you think peer reviewers should be paid? Send us your thoughts via email at podcast.cjs@gmail.com or on X @coldsteelpod.Links:Cotton CS, Alam A, Tosta S, Buchman TG, Maslove DM. Effect of Monetary Incentives on Peer Review Acceptance and Completion: A Quasi-Randomized Interventional Trial. Crit Care Med. 2025 Mar 6. doi: 10.1097/CCM.0000000000006637. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 40047491.Maslove DM, Tang B, Shankar-Hari M, Lawler PR, Angus DC, Baillie JK, Baron RM, Bauer M, Buchman TG, Calfee CS, Dos Santos CC, Giamarellos-Bourboulis EJ, Gordon AC, Kellum JA, Knight JC, Leligdowicz A, McAuley DF, McLean AS, Menon DK, Meyer NJ, Moldawer LL, Reddy K, Reilly JP, Russell JA, Sevransky JE, Seymour CW, Shapiro NI, Singer M, Summers C, Sweeney TE, Thompson BT, van der Poll T, Venkatesh B, Walley KR, Walsh TS, Ware LB, Wong HR, Zador ZE, Marshall JC. Redefining critical illness. Nat Med. 2022 Jun;28(6):1141-1148. doi: 10.1038/s41591-022-01843-x. Epub 2022 Jun 17. PMID: 35715504.Maslove DM, Badawi O. The Many Faces of Prediction Modeling in Critical Care. Crit Care Med. 2022 Apr 1;50(4):687-689. doi: 10.1097/CCM.0000000000005409. PMID: 35311775.https://med.stanford.edu/master-clinical-informatics-management/stanford-clinical-informatics/ms-phd-in-biomedical-informatics.html | 46m 51s | ||||||
| 3/11/25 | ![]() E175 - Global Surgery and the Power of Purpose with Mark Shrime | The only thing that can save us from our irascibly self-centered existence is to make sure that our existence is in the service of othersMark Shrime, ENT surgeon, global surgery researcher and now career coach is our guest on this episode. The quote I read was from his wonderful book, “Solving for Why: A Surgeon’s Journey to Discover the Transformative Power of Purpose”. It’s important to understand just how much of a fascinating person Mark Shrime is to get a context for this conversation. Dr. Shrime was the International Chief Medical Officer at Mercy Ships, an international NGO that operates hospital ships. Mark is also one of the major figures in the global surgery space, and was part of the 2015 Lancet Commission on Global Surgery. If that were not enough, he is also an American Ninja Warrior! We explored why Mark felt the need to write a book on purpose as well as his insights on global surgery, amongst many other topics. This was such an important conversation not just for surgeons but for anyone trying discover meaning and purpose in their life. Links:https://www.markshrime.com/ https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/dr-mark-shrime/solving-for-why/9781538734162/?lens=twelvehttps://www.thelancet.com/commissions/global-surgeryShrime MG, Alkire BC, Grimes C, Chao TE, Poenaru D, Verguet S. Cost-Effectiveness in Global Surgery: Pearls, Pitfalls, and a Checklist. World J Surg. 2017 Jun;41(6):1401-1413. doi: 10.1007/s00268-017-3875-0. PMID: 28105528.Smith ER, Kapoor P, Concepcion T, Ramirez T, Mohamed M, Dahir S, Cotache-Condor C, Adan Ismail E, Rice HE, Shrime MG. Does reducing out-of-pocket costs for children's surgical care protect families from poverty in Somaliland? A cross-sectional, national, economic evaluation modelling study. BMJ Open. 2023 May 2;13(5):e069572. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2022-069572. PMID: 37130683; PMCID: PMC10163539 | 57m 08s | ||||||
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