It's Always Sunny in Surgery

And so, we are closing up again. We discuss some of the other finer points of this specialty series:The ability to amuse oneself is one of the purest joys Audiences in new placesNearly a full house of specialties.......However, it's harder to remain anonymous in smaller circlesWe re-affirm our commitment to bringing you solid content......But our lives and our jobs are getting more serious now..Our plans for next seasonEmail us: surgicalcareersnw@gmail.comTwitter: @NW_surgical (www.twitter.com/NW_surgical)Reddit: u/surgicalcareersNW (www.reddit.com/u/surgicalcareersNW

This is it folks! This is what we have been building to for the last 6 months! All the uppercuts, all the low blows, all of the urine extracted from orthopaedics 🦴 and all the shade thrown at neurosurgery 🧠 all culminate in this…We are rejoined by listeners 🎧 , contributors 🗣️ and now pundits 🎙️ Michael Ahn (Health Education West Midlands) and Dan Lazenby (Health Education North West) as we comment on the whole of last season, and what a season it’s been!We discuss:Capitalism at its worst 💸We won’t get cancelled will we?! 🚫Low key fans in high places 🧐 (proof down below)Acolytes of the knife joining in🤰👁️The best, best thing about surgery 🔪Core memories 💩Pinky / ye olde index haemostasis 🤙The best, worst thing about surgery 🥂Disappointing Asian parents 🫠Everyone gets a bit of love…except orthopaedics…because we don’t wanna admit that we need them… 😅The phantoms and apparitions that are cardiothoracics and neurosurgery🫀The winner 🏅 and loser of this season (with a little help from ChatGPT) 🤖But remember folks…the real winners are the friends we made along the way! 🤝-Go forth my son and cast thy pod! (the deanery’s unofficial endorsement of our activities).https://imgur.com/a/5yWG5FD-You just can't compete with him.... so don't: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonny_Kim-We're family here https://www.ted.com/talks/gloria_chan_packer_work_is_not_your_family_jan_2022?subtitle=enEmail us: surgicalcareersnw@gmail.comTwitter: @NW_surgical (www.twitter.com/NW_surgical)Reddit: u/surgicalcareersNW (www.reddit.com/u/surgicalcareersNW

Just like any major cable television event, here comes another break in the action…This season has been pretty challenging to get trainees from every specialty together. We received some messages from concerned listeners doing a welfare check when the last episode should have been released.Fear not! We’ve not gone anywhere. We just didn’t want to release additional filler episodes whilst we are scheduling and recording the last couple. These neurosurgeons and cardiac surgeons are an elusive bunch… 👀.Anyways, because we have no other way to communicate with everyone, here we are, another filler episode just to let you know we’re alive and well, and working on original content.Email us: surgicalcareersnw@gmail.comTwitter: @NW_surgical (www.twitter.com/NW_surgical)Reddit: u/surgicalcareersNW (www.reddit.com/u/surgicalcareersNW

Well, we didn’t expect them to make an appearance during this Royal Rumble of sorts, but they were called out early on and are here to lay the smacketh down!Today we’re joined by Alison Thompson and Sherif Shawer (Health Education North West) as we grapple with O&G. We talk about the highest highs and the lowest lows, and everything in between. Seen by some as an easy target, they’ve definitely got the respect of all us parents this season!And it’s clear that years on the labour ward knocking out Category 1 C-sections means they have the endurance, stamina and speed with a knife to bring the pain!Email us: surgicalcareersnw@gmail.comTwitter: @NW_surgical (www.twitter.com/NW_surgical)Reddit: u/surgicalcareersNW (www.reddit.com/u/surgicalcareersNW)

Well that escalated quickly; a few weeks ago we had some specialties trash talking eyes and this week, out of nowhere, a specialty whose name we're not sure how to spell dive into the ring to rise to the challenge. Not strictly a pure surgical specialty, but they have knives 🔪 and they cut eyes 👁️. Some might say they're the envy of us all; they knock out ten times as many cases on a list as the rest of us, and all they're still home in time for tea! So today we focus the lens 🔬on Hugo Whyte and James Richardson-May (Health Education Wessex) and lift the lid on the good bits, the bad bits and the stuff they wish they'd known before starting training. Who are they enlisting for desert island survival 🏝️ and who are they taking on in a fight? 🥊 They might not be known for their physical prowess, but that doesn't matter; you wouldn't hit a guy with glasses right?! 🤓Email us: surgicalcareersnw@gmail.comTwitter: @NW_surgical (www.twitter.com/NW_surgical)Reddit: u/surgicalcareersNW (www.reddit.com/u/surgicalcareersNW)

This episode is all about the kids; Jamie’s got his hands full with his, leaving Assad with André Cardoso Almeida (Health Education West Midlands) marking the entrance of paediatric surgery into the ring. The circle is complete; the apprentice has become the master! First crossing paths in general surgery during CST when Assad was a junior reg, André has motored through training and recently CCT’d.We chat about:Surgery on teeny tiny people with teeny tiny organs where losing a few drops of blood 🩸 has an impact on the circulating volume 🫀.Pulling on emotional heart strings 🎻 as a fringe benefit 😏The nerves of steel 😶 lying beneath a cheery exterior 🙂Operating on patients anywhere from a few days 👶 to a few years old 🧒, in different cavities 🫁 and systems.Desert island survival 🏝️Who could they lay the smack down on? 🤼‍♀️ Surely they wouldn’t? Not in front of the kids!Email us: surgicalcareersnw@gmail.comTwitter: @NW_surgical (www.twitter.com/NW_surgical)Reddit: u/surgicalcareersNW (www.reddit.com/u/surgicalcareersNW)

It's tough fitting a podcast around life, training, families, kids and crucially for trainees....ARCP season! As Jeff Goldblum in Jurassic Park so succinctly says "Life...uh...finds a way". And life has very much found a way to intrude in our recording schedule. So whilst we get around to bringing in more specialties into the ring, here's a bit of a catch up amongst old friends. We talk about:Realising you're past it 👴The scientific methodology in reality TV 🔬Veterinary surgical subspecialties 🔪Surgical souvenirs 🪨🦵Cannibalism (as you do) 🍽️😋👀Feline aortic surgery:Vezzosi T, Buralli C, Briganti A, Vannozzi I, Giacomelli E, Talamanca GF, Sansoni A, Domenech O, Tognetti R, Surgical embolectomy in a cat with cardiogenic aortic thromboembolism, Journal of Veterinary Cardiology, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvc.2020.03.002.Self-cannibalism following traumatic amputation:https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/8p5xlj/hi_all_i_am_a_man_who_ate_a_portion_of_his_own/Radiohead being their cheery selves:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Lpw3yMCWroEmail us: surgicalcareersnw@gmail.comTwitter: @NW_surgical (www.twitter.com/NW_surgical)Reddit: u/surgicalcareersNW (www.reddit.com/u/surgicalcareersNW)

This week is the turn of ENT 👂👃🗣️and Assad has roped some old friends into the fray. We’re joined by Kate Hamnett and Joe Stansfield (Health Education North West) as we have at them; the good bits, the bad bits, the clinics (are they good or bad?), vertigo 🎭, bewildering anatomy mixed in with a bit of voodoo 🪄. And as you might expect from a bit of a catch up; we get a bit waylaid and off topic, but there’s plenty there for you to listen to!Email us: surgicalcareersnw@gmail.comTwitter: @NW_surgical (www.twitter.com/NW_surgical)Reddit: u/surgicalcareersNW (www.reddit.com/u/surgicalcareersNW)