Don't worry don't worry! Thank you for your concerns for welfare, we've not had a bust-up or lost interest; it's just that life/work/training/families get in our way and are making it increasingly difficult to find time to record. And with it having been ARCP season recently, we set our portfolios to overdrive at the expense of everything else.

What starts out as a catch-up devolves into a lengthy chat/rant about:

• Prophylactic tie-wearing to assert dominance
• Training and the conflicting directives therein
• Selling out to corporate sponsorship
• Peppa Pig
• Medical superstition

And more... Anyways aside from chronicling our trials and tribulations, we strategise on ways we plan to deliver what we set out to deliver in this season. More episodes to follow!

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The clip from Wayne's World https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lgLYGBbDNs

Orthopaedics vs. anaesthetics BMJ Xmas study https://www.bmj.com/content/343/bmj.d7506

Just like Stevie Wonder says, superstition ain't the way: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0883944118303770#

The Peppa Pig effect https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2021/jul/19/peppa-pig-american-kids-british-accents

This episode was actually recored on the day the man, the legend Brian Wilson died, inspiring the title of this episode https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lP8BZcyoEQ

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This week has us scoping out surgeons in the media and our favourite examples. Are these portrayals accurate? Where exactly do they come from? Which ones are based on just pure stereotypes and which ones must be getting that insider information?

We discuss:

• The historical hassle of having to arrange out of hours imaging 🩻
• Every surgeon’s dream ward round 🏃🏽‍♂️💨
• Art imitating life 🎨
• The little details that make these programmes particularly poignant 🚰
• The worst examples never show the admin we do! 📑
• No matter how over the top, there’s no smoke without fire 🔥
• And, as a little extra (keep tuned to the end!) some people getting it all mixed up 🙃
• Also, some of the joys of a decent hairdresser 💇‍♂️, a proper brew ☕️, and a chance to offload 🗣️

There are SO many examples that we didn’t get to cover, so we will probably come back to this topic again.

Here’s some of the source material we discussed in the episode:

• Simon Bramhall liver guy with the initials in the liver https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-birmingham-59954321
• Psycho plastics guy Nottingham stabbing his colleague https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3d8nymg12zo
• Scrubs - Turk doing rounds https://youtu.be/JOZK1qD9usU?si=vrn-6SZXCPs1lRVs

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It has oft been said that “The heart of a lion, the eyes of an eagle, and the hands of a lady maketh the surgeon.” Well then, time to get into it! Who or what are surgeons? What makes us tick? Do we really need the ❤️ of a 🦁, the 👀 of an 🦅 or the 💅of a👩‍💼 to do the job well?

• Are the characteristics needed to be a surgeon hardwired into us? 🧬
• If surgeons were made to wear the Harry Potter sorting hat, what house would we be, and what does that say about us…?🐍
• We get introspective about our own personalities and how we fit into this work persona 🔬 🤓
• How much crossover is there between us and psychopaths? 🫣
• Are we really more attractive than other types of doctors? 💁‍♀️
• What does it all really boil down to…? 🔪🙏

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Additional sources discussed in this episode:

Well, we're not gonna argue! 😏 https://newsfeed.time.com/2013/08/30/survey-surgeons-are-the-most-attractive-doctors/

Yikes 😬 https://publishing.rcseng.ac.uk/doi/pdf/10.1308/rcsbull.2015.331

If you say so...https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/culture/44562/some-surgeons-may-be-psychopathsbut-thats-no-bad-thing

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