Cold Steel: Canadian Journal of Surgery Podcast

Dr. Vahagn Nikolian (https://twitter.com/VNikolian?s=20) has been thinking about the way we can adopt virtual care far before the COVID19 pandemic. Dr. Nikolian is a surgeon at Oregon Health & Scienc…

It is astonishing how a pea-sized gland in one’s neck could be so troublesome. Dr. Jesse Pasternak is an endocrine surgeon at Toronto General Hospital. In this episode, we delve into the workup of hy…

What do you do if you are a "struggling" trainee or trying to help a struggling trainee? We were lucky enough to have Dr. Ahmer Karimuddin join us on this episode to try to answer those questions. He…

In this episode, we interview Shane DiNapoli, a chartered accountant based in Calgary, Alberta. We talk to him about some of the common mistakes he sees physicians make with their finances, physician…

Have you ever stared at the garbage bags in the operating room and thought – that’s a lot of trash! Dr. Andrea MacNeill (https://twitter.com/Ecosurgeon?s=20) took that thought and decided to do somet…

Dr. Michael D’Angelica (https://twitter.com/MichaelDAngeli2?s=20)is a surgical oncologist and hepatobiliary surgeon at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Centre. He is world-renowned for both his resear…

Dr. Andrew Ibrahim (https://twitter.com/AndrewMIbrahim) is a general surgeon at the University of Michigan and an architect at the firm HOK. In this episode, we talk about his path and how he combine…

Our guest for this episode doesn’t believe in comfort zones. Dr. Vivian McAlister is a transplant surgeon, a professor of surgery in London, Ontario, and a former Editor-in-Chief of the Canadian Jour…

We are absolutely delighted to have Karen Norris (@freckleface23 on twitter) join us on the podcast today. Karen Norris is the conference manager at the Canadian Association of General Surgeons and m…

It’s our pleasure to start off the new year with an episode on social media and surgery! In this episode, we were joined by Dr. Sean Langenfeld (https://twitter.com/seanlangenfeld). Dr. Langenfeld is…

In this episode, we were lucky enough to have Dr. Nicholas Zyromski (https://twitter.com/nzyromski) give us a masterclass on pancreatitis. We go over classification and then go through a host of cont…

In this episode, we discuss the Danish mask study. We discuss the paper itself and the results.  More importantly, we discuss the challenges of science communication and science literacy for physicia…

In this episode, we were joined by surgical oncologist Dr. Carolyn Nessim (www.twitter.com/carolynnessim). Dr. Nessim works at the Ottawa General Hospital and gave us a masterclass on melanoma. We ta…

Dr.  Ryan Martin is an orthopedic surgeon at the Foothills Medical Centre in Calgary, Alberta. We talked to him about what it was like to be a sports doctor for the Calgary stampeders, and the prepar…

In this episode, Dr. Kelly Vogt (https://twitter.com/kellynvogt) and Dr. Rebecca Auer(https://twitter.com/auer_r) join us to talk about the documentary film "RBG". What can we as surgeons learn about…

This is a special episode of Cold Steel done in collaboration with the Canadian Association of General Surgeons (CAGS: www.twitter.com/CAGS_ACCG). In lieu of the annual Canadian Surgical Forum (CSF),…

In this episode we were honoured to once again have another icon of trauma surgery join us. Dr. Ernest E. Gene Moore is a trauma surgeon at the Denver General Hospital. In this episode we explore Dr.…

In this episode, we were lucky enough to have Dr. Clarence Wong. Dr. Wong is an interventional gastroenterologist at the University of Alberta. He gave us a masterclass on the approach to large polyp…