Tim Dawson, surgeon, joins for a long and detailed adventure. Origin stories (Lite). Aggressive training and doctoral hazing. Path dependency and living free from regret. Dissociation from chopping open people’s bodies. The money side of medicine. Ignorance of kangaroo anatomy; enormous kangaroo muscles. Performing remote controlled surgery from the same room. Look forward to a return visit from Tim exclusively on the subject of robotic surgery.

12m 30s Surgical pecking orders mean that operating room time is like ice time and lap lane time, for those of you who skate or swim.

13m 40s Mesh sales reps are banging down Tim’s door. Staple reps are also up there. Laparoscopic companies send their salespeople with new tech to showcase. Medicine sellers not so much.

28m 30s Thinking about surgery, or not thinking about it.

30m 32s Respect for the dead, neutrality for the living.

34m 8s Looking back on whether making it to being a doctor was worth it.

38m 40s On surgeons who lack skill: “There are a lot of people who aren’t good at this.”

42m 35s Public health. It’s a problem.