In this "Leveling Up" Episode of the Award-Winning PRS Global Open Deep Cuts Podcast, Dr. Nicholas Haddock discusses the concept of "deliberate practice," the importance of continuously tracking performance and outcomes in improving patient care, critical pearls of dissecting chest vessels in a DIEP flap, why the safest place to be is right on top of a perforator, how getting the widest surgical exposure isn't always the best idea, and how the era of COVID has affected his approach to breast reconstruction.

Read a recent PRS Global Open article by Dr. Haddock and co-author Dr. Sumeet Teotia, "Efficient DIEP Flap: Bilateral Breast Reconstruction in Less Than Four Hours:" https://bit.ly/GOXDC_Haddock

Nicholas Haddock is an Associate Professor and Vice Chair of Business Affairs in the department of plastic surgery at the University of Texas Southwestern medical Center in Dallas, Texas. He trained in plastic surgery at NYU, and in hand and microsurgery at Penn, and now has a practice focused primarily on breast reconstruction. He currently serves as an Associate Editor on the Editorial Boards of PRS Global Open and Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery.

Your host, Dr. Puru Nagarkar, is a board-certified plastic and hand surgeon, and Assistant Professor of Surgery at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas.

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