This week's guest episode is with Dr Laurence Webber, a hepatobiliary surgeon from Western Australia.

We cover a wide range of topics including:

Practicalities of post-fellowship exam life including:
- Pathways in surgical training 
- How to get a job after surgical training
00:00 - 00:25 mins

Clinical topics including:
Colorectal liver metastases:
- What to do with disappearing liver metastases
- Chemotherapy
- Liver first?
- Liver remnant and functional assessment
- Criteria of when to resect
MRI liver and when to use gadolinium and primovist
When to operate on patient’s with HCC and cirrhosis
Anatomical factors that determine resectability of hilar cholangiocarcinoma and pancreatic cancer
Pancreatic cancer:
- Neoadjuvant chemotherapy
- Arterial resection 
- ABC of resectability of pancreatic cancer (the MD Anderson model)
- Broad steps of a Whipple’s operation
Bile duct injury
- How to avoid them
- How to identify them
- What do to with them

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