Surgeon Tim Dawson returns to deeply ponder surgery and its place in public health in response to difficult questions from Terry. An existential collapse is avoided, but only barely. The gang uncover the universal desire to do something that works. Terry can’t stop thinking about how America has turned into Thiccmerica while Dr. Dawson declines to surgically remove twenty pounds of Russ’s middle aged gains.
1m 57s Difficult topics for difficult people. Being earnestly inauthentic. Re-recording the show intro.
3m 7s Ep-pee-dee-mee-ology and other lesser know -ologies. It’s all Greek to me!
4m 37s Terry wants to know how to manage modern noncommunicable diseases that all have complex, interwoven causes. Realizing that dirty truth partly through med school.
10m 11s High blood pressure (hypertension) itself is not acutely dangerous on its own. Because that would be too simple. Contrast that with the simple satisfaction of cutting stuff out of people’s bodies.
14m 5s Talking through the mental flowchart of when it’s time to chop stuff out of people’s bodies. “When did medicine become a carwash for you?” -Terry Miller
17m 14s Wondering out loud about a kinder, gentler emotional and mental load for doctors and healthcare professionals.
20m 34s Underthinking obesity.
23m 30s Strategizing on how to (hypothetically) reverse Russ’s middle aged weight gain. Disagreements over what constitutes “sacrifices.”
6 май 2024
