In this "Leveling Up" episode of the PRS Global Open Deep Cuts Podcast, Dr. Steven Moran discusses why he calls himself a "blue collar surgeon," creating the defect, how to teach a resident to put in a K wire, why some things can only be learned at the school of hard knocks, the nuances of harvesting the MFC flap and reducing a distal radius fracture, the critical little details in pediatric hand surgery, and how to be a lifelong learner.

Read a recent PRS Global Open article by Dr. Moran and colleagues:

"Reconstruction of Oncologic Sternectomy Defects: Lessons Learned from 60 Cases at a Single Institution" by Banuelos, Abu-Ghname, Bite, Moran, et al: https://bit.ly/DeepCutsMoran

Dr. Steven Moran, MD is a hand surgeon, microsurgeon and reconstructive plastic surgeon at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester Minnesota, in the Division of Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery.

He is the Surgical Director of the Essam and Dalal Obaid Center for Reconstructive Transplant Surgery and the Director of Hand Transplant as well. He is the present chair of the Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery at Mayo, and the recipient of the Godina Fellowship from the American Society for Reconstructive Microsurgery.

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, Texas.

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