This Week in Medical School (TWIMS): Surgery Clerkship Week 3
Channel: Shiv Gaglani
Date: 20/01/2024

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A few reflections from the third week of the surgery clerkship:

1. *Something the Lord Made.* In honor of MLK Jr Day earlier this week, I watched this 2004 HBO movie about the first successful cardiac surgery made possible by Dr. Vivien Thomas, Dr. Helen Taussig, and Dr. Alfred Blalock here at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in the 1940s. The surgical building is named Blalock and two of the colleges at Hopkins Med are called Thomas and Taussig in honor of these pioneers. Highly recommend! https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/something_the_lord_made

2. *Minimally-Invasive Surgery.* This week I scrubbed in to a robotic cholecystectomy (gall-bladder removal) and partial hepatectomy (liver removal) which reminded me of one of my favorite Arthur C. Clarke quotes: "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." 

3. *Approach to Abdominal Pain.* Most of us have at some point experienced abdominal pain. If you're curious about how good clinicians & surgeons localize that pain and develop a differential diagnosis, Osmosis.org from Elsevier has created a few clear, concise, and visually-appealing videos such as this one: https://www.osmosis.org/learn/Approach_to_periumbilical_and_lower_abdominal_pain:_Clinical_sciences. 


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