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Off The Table: A Global Surgery Podcast

Off The Table: A Global Surgery Podcast, on behalf of the Global Surgery Lab

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We are a diverse group of people who deeply care about improving access to surgical care worldwide and believe that those solutions come from the ground up. Our mission is to create an environment to have safe conversations about equitable surgical care globally. To give a voice to surgical providers on the ground to express the challenges of delivering surgical care in their contexts. To highlight equitable global surgical partnerships, free from neocolonialism. To offer evidence-based appr ...
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Emotional labor is the invisible, unnoticed, unwaged, unwritten, undervalued work women do at home and in the paid workforce. It is the thinking about what’s coming up, what needs to happen, how to look into the future to anticipate birthdays, school permissions slips, family meals, holiday dinners, do we have enough toilet paper, how come we don’t have any more ketchup? There are myriad ways in which we have to think about the functioning of a household. Granted, all of these little tasks a ...
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COHDScast

Sadie Couture and Maeva Thibeault

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An initiative of the Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling at Concordia University, COHDScast unveils the work of researchers and artists who engage with oral history in their practice. _____________________________________ Une initiative du Centre d’histoire orale et de récits numérisés de l’Université Concordia, COHDScast dévoile le travail de chercheur.e.s et artistes qui emploient l’histoire orale dans leur pratique. Team members / Membres de l’équipe: Co-Producers / Co-produc ...
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It is not often that I meet someone, living a very full personal and professional life, and who has figured out how to spread around the weight of emotional labor. But after speaking with my guest, Patricia De Fonte, I walked away from that conversation thinking that, wow, here’s a role model for delegating, dialoguing, and anticipating what’s comi…
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Dr. Loleen Berdahl and Dr. Christie Schultz Since its inception, the Emotional Labor podcast has delved deep into the mental load of emotional labor as it exists within the home. Our guests have included authors and researchers whose work intersects with the many invisible layers of emotional labor at home. In this episode, we are thrilled to discu…
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Each surgical subspecialty has unique sets of challenges when performing their specific procedures. In plastic surgery, procedures for complex burns, hand injuries, and congenital deformities can require tissue/skin graft preparation and microscopic reapproximation. These challenges are only exacerbated when resources are limited - both in terms of…
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​​The dawn of a new year brings new resolutions, new perspectives, and new hope. And what better way to kick off 2024 than with our latest episode – one that explores global surgical topics as well as life lessons. We are proud to present our guest, Dr Myron Rolle, a former American football (NFL) player turned neurosurgeon. In this episode, we wil…
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Dr. Susan Landers retired from her work as a neonatologist – a career that spanned 34 years. But alas, although “retired” Dr. Susan found, “I just could not sit still.” Sharing compelling stories from her medical practice with her book club members, as she shouldered the heavy load of raising a family, her cohort encouraged her Susan to write about…
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David Smith is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Johns Hopkins University. Carey Business School. I came across his name when I read a review for his second book, Good Guys: How Men Can Be Better Allies for Women in the Workplace (Harvard Business Review Press, 2020). What I find remarkable and special about David, was learning about his “why.…
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Ingrid Jansen is a friend, colleague, and gifted entrepreneur based in London. Ingrid co-founded, with her pal Lesley Spellman, The De-Clutter Hub, an online membership platform for cluttered folks needing the support to make their way from chaos to clarity. The two women host a podcast with 1.5 million downloads, and they host a FaceBook group wit…
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Back when she was starting her family, Gifty Enright wished she had in her tool-kit, the language of Emotional Labor. Granted, she may have avoided a lot of grief and despair, but then again, we would have never known her gift for putting to words the feelings she had when she Just. Burned. Out., and as described in her book, The Octopus On A Tread…
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Leaving behind everything to escape war, persecution, or even natural disaster poses its own unique challenges. Forced relocation is difficult, creating a unique set of problems including housing, food, finances, and importantly, healthcare. Accessing these resources as a refugee is extremely difficult and uniquely convoluted. Refugee camps seek to…
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این موضوع #روبه_رو _شدن_با_احساس_بی_ارزشی موضوعیست در فصل ارتباط با خود, که به موضوع چکونگی روبه رو شدن با احساس بی ارزشی می پردازد. آیا همه ما در زمانهایی از زندگی مان با این احساس که ناکافی، ناکارامد و بی ارزشیم دست و پنجه نرم می کنیم؟ آیا درآمد خوب، موفقیت، منطقی بودن و به دنبال دانش رفتن میتواند این احساس را در ما از بین ببرد یا راههای دیگری بر…
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Joanna Schroeder is a force. She’s at the forefront of the spreading the word about raising non-sexist, non-racist sons, and so I can’t wait to read her latest book, Talk to Your Boys: 27 Crucial Conversations to Have With Your Tweens and Teen Sons due early 2025. Joanna is also a writer, editor and feminist media critic. She was raised by a femini…
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It’s not often I read an article with the words “gender equity” embedded in the title. I had not finished reading Sara Madera’s article, Why Achieving Gender Equity at Home is Still Tougher That At Work when I started my email to Sara inviting her to the Emotional Labor podcast. And I’m so glad that I did. Aside from being an insightful writer, Sar…
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Dr. Shahrzad Nooravi is a business psychologist, Master Certified Coach (MCC) and Founder and CEO of Strategy Meets Performance, a business consulting firm that partners with leaders of mid-sized to Fortune 500 organizations to help them create engaging, innovative, and productive cultures. Dr. Nooravi has been named “Trailblazer of the Year,” “Cit…
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Kelly Ryan Bailey is our guest this week and I’m excited to introduce her to our Emotional Labor podcast community. An entrepreneur, speaker, advisor, investor, spouse, and… mama of 3 – Kelly is one smart woman who has parlayed her life experience with major burn-out at the tender age of 36 – into viable business entities. From her SkillsBaby.com p…
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As professionals working on a global scale, even the simplest of things must be challenged. Surgeons, lawyers, administrators, and many others, must adapt to become multifaceted individuals in this space. Surgery doesn’t just start and stop with the drapes. It involves supply chain, personnel management, legislation, advocacy, and so much more. In …
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I started my organizing business two months after my university job layoff. An academic at heart, I devoured a lot books to help me learn my new craft. And it was with great excitement and glee when I can across Sari Solden’s, Women with Attention Deficit Disorder. Page after page of important insight and analysis of how the mental load of emotiona…
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ما هم مثل همه شما با بهت و بیم و امید جریانات دوره اعتراضات و به تعبیری انقلاب زن، زندگی، آزادی رو از سر گذراندیم و مثل بسیاری از شما در این دوران نتوانستیم به روند عادی زندگی و کارمان ادامه بدهیم. در این این پادکست خیلی خودمانی والبته بدون تصمیم قلبی از تجربه و نگاهمان با شما حرف زدیم. مارا از نظرات خود باخبر کنید. به زودی و البته با امید بسیار بر…
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Delivery of surgical services in low-resource settings is extremely difficult. Supply chain issues, funding, shortages of supplies, and even lack of healthcare professionals are each enormous hurdles in and of themselves. What about when civil conflict arises and a war begins? Increases in different types of injuries start to plague the already fra…
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Maureen Nolan is an ‘attention coach’ who is using the book, Emotional Labor: Why A Woman’s Work is Never Done and What To Do About It with her clients seeking the ability to focus, and improve awareness about relationships. A specialist in working with people with executive function challenges, Maureen works with her clients through the lens of th…
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Megan Hauser is a force. She’s a researcher, educator, mother, wife, and gender justice advocate. A doctoral candidate in Education and Research at Lehigh University, Megan is doing interesting work, specializing in time-use and investigating the disproportionality of female-identifying teachers to female-identifying administrators in the U.S. publ…
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Lisa Levey’s book, The Libra Solution is a 2012 exploration of thoughts and ideas we continue to examine to this day - namely, strategies and solutions for household equity. Lisa is a recognized expert in the fields of women's leadership, diversity, and work-life integration. She lives with her husband and two sons in the Boston area. Her work is v…
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Judith Kolberg is my long time friend and colleague, and, as of 2 years ago, my brilliant collaborator as well. The Emotional Labor book would not be what it is without Judith’s talents – as an editor and writer, and as a listener. Our work together on the book was delightful and fun, and Judith’s sense of humor shows up on many pages. Our podcast …
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Aashi Arora, founder of iRise Executive Coaching, is a successful and smart business coach. She’s got an interesting niche – working with healthcare professionals in leadership development, career transitions, and emotional intelligence. She’s also a life coach for executive level professional women. We had a great conversation about how she works …
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Tiffany Blassingame is my good friend and colleague, and a contributor to my book on emotional labor. She’s also a thought-leader, education, school administrator, mom to a high scholar and athlete, and all around decent human being. As a productivity expert and professional organizer, Tiffany founded the National Association of Black Professional …
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Global climate change directly affects every person on the earth today. Whether this is a simple temperature rise or abnormal weather patterns to complete displacement of one's living situation due to rising ocean waters, climate change is happening all around us. Many industries have sought to do their part to slow the progression including the mi…
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When we discuss global surgery, we often focus on the physical workforce that it takes to support a patient through their surgical needs. The other side of this process is the digital or mechanical support that makes surgery all possible. It is easy to take for granted the countless computers, x-ray machines, ventilators, and more. We often don’t r…
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New year, new episode! After a brief pause, we are excited to be back to share with you more about the amazing initiatives happening around the world and major concepts within the field of global surgery. The episode today is focused on a topic relevant to every listener because we all have one - mothers! Women’s health is at the very core of medic…
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In commemoration of Pride month this month, we wanted to highlight a population within society, but particularly in the field of global surgery, that is often left behind. The LGBTQ+ community has experienced high rates of discrimination and ostracization resulting in higher rates of mental illness, suicide, and even drug use. Further, LGBTQ+ patie…
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Welcome to our seventh episode, featuring the inspiring husband and wife duo, Dr. Nandakumar Menon and Dr. Shylaja (Shyla) Devi. In this episode we welcome two extraordinary individuals who have made an enormous impact on improving healthcare accessibility and delivery for indigenous populations in rural India. Shyla, a gynecologist, and Nandakumar…
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Lights, camera, ACTION! With the continued evolution of social media and technology, content creators can share their talent widely throughout the world without the need of a stage crew, make-up artist, costume designer, scriptwriter, director, etc. etc. etc.; in fact, you can do it from your very own living room with your iPhone! While it doesn’t …
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The beautiful thing about surgery is that it has the power to change lives in ways that no other field can. Surgery is often used to correct physical deformation. Whether that is a fractured femur from a motorcycle accident, a craniotomy to relieve pressure on the brain, or an appendectomy to remove a ruptured appendix, each of these procedures hel…
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درد بخشی جدایی ناپذیر از داستان زندگیست. رنج اما می تواند به عوامل دیگری بستگی داشته باشد که ما می توانیم توانایی تغییر و مدیریت آن را در خودمان پیدا کنیم. در این میان مهم است که داستان رنجمان را پیدا کنیم. داستان رنج شما چیست؟ برای شناسایی داستان رنجتان، با ما همراه شوید. لطفا ما را با آدرسهای زیر: در تلگرام: insight_plus در اینستاگرام: insightplu…
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این موضوع: #تفسیر_درد #Pain_Interpretation تفسیر ما از درد و معنایی که به آن می‌دهیم، تعبیر واقعیت‌های بیرونی با گذر از فیلترهایی گوناگون ذهنی‌ست که از باورهای بنیادین،ارزش‌های درونی، عواطف قدیمی، آسیب‌های کودکی و روند زندگی ما سرچشمه می‌گیرند. کسانی که هنوز نتوانسته اند از آسیب ها و زخم های درون خود شفا پیدا کنند، به دلایل و بهانه های مختلف در محی…
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Asking questions is at the very core of education. Surgical education specifically is a unique circumstance in which “learning” directly affects the lives of others - sometimes in very negative and real ways. Thus, tackling training of new surgeons around the world has very real consequences that can help increase access to needed care around the g…
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This episode we welcome the man who wears many hats; Dr. Abebe Bekele, founding Dean of the School of Medicine and Deputy Vice Chancellor at the University of Global Health and Equity (UGHE) in Rwanda. Dr. Bekele is a renowned thoracic Surgeon and a Professor of Surgery at Addis Ababa University, School of Medicine in Ethiopia. He is a fellow of th…
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Imagine if you arrived at your house and there were dozens of Amazon boxes at your door. None of which you had ordered. You open them only to find random items – a hairbrush, t-shirts that are way too big for anyone in your household, a toaster, and ice cream that is now all melted since you didn’t know it was there and should be refrigerated. Furt…
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We are delighted to be joined by the incredible Dr. Brian Madison, president of South Sudan Orthopaedics and Trauma Society. Dr. Madison is an orthopaedic surgeon with a passion for global surgery. He is a dedicated advocate for the improvement of surgical systems in Africa. Born in Eastern Equatoria, before South Sudan was even recognized as an in…
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4 hours? 7 hours? 10 hours? Look around you. Chances are you have a cell phone, tablet, or computer within reach (you are reading this after all). The number of hours an individual spends on their electronic devices each day continues to rise every year. With mobile devices reaching almost every corner of the earth, access to technology has never b…
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Welcome to our fourth episode, featuring special guest Dr. Bret Batchelor. Dr. Batchelor is a renowned Family Practitioner and Chief of Surgery at Queen Victoria Hospital in Revelstoke, B.C. He completed his medical degree at the University of Calgary before undertaking Rural Family Medicine training at the University of British Columbia and an Enh…
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Our episode today covers a debilitating and life-threatening condition that disproportionately affects those in developing countries around the world. Affecting more than 150,000 people annually, Noma is a fatal infection of the face and mouth with the mortality rate approaching more than 90 percent and the morbidity/sequelae are permanently debili…
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This week we are ecstatic to be joined by the renowned Dr. Dieudonne Lemfuka, a general surgeon from the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Dr. Lemfuka is passionately involved in surgery, surgical education, global surgery advocacy, and Christian SIM missionary work. Dieudonne received his medical training from the Pan-African Academy of Christian …
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Children are one of the world’s protected populations. Indeed, they are the very make up of our future as a race. They bring new life, ideas, and opportunities we can only dream of. Unfortunately, not all children around the world have equal opportunities to contribute to this future. In 2019 alone, more than 5 million children under 5 years died f…
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Introducing the awe-inspiring doctor and feminist extraodinaire, Dr. Marcella Ryan-Coker. Born, raised, and currently practicing in Sierra Leone, Dr. Ryan-Coker is an esteemed physician and global surgery advocate at the forefront of the inspirative humanitarian movement to improve surgical care in West Africa. She completed her MSc in Global Healt…
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Findings from studies published in The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) report that more than 45% of resident physicians experience burnout and the numbers are continuing to climb. If that number didn’t surprise you, then you are well aware of the psychological stress and struggles that doctors and other healthcare workers experie…
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Dr. Emmanuel Makasa does not require an introduction, and he tells his story and career path better than anyone else. In short, he is an orthopaedics and trauma surgeon turned global health diplomat with senior management experience at the Zambian Ministry of Health as Deputy Director responsible for Emergency Health Services. He was Secretary Gene…
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Undergoing surgery is an extremely multifaceted process that includes physical, mental, and social aspects to make it successful. Often when we talk about surgery, we focus on the physical and neglect these other important parts. This is where social work can bring all the pieces together to include the biopsychosocial approach to surgical care - a…
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Humans are inherently social creatures. For centuries we’ve learnt to survive, adapt and overcome through collaboration and unity. Medicine, in particular, highlights the value of taking input from multiple specialities and healthcare professionals to optimise patient care. However, with the power of modern technology, does this collaboration need …
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Healing takes time. To heal means to regenerate, to align and to gain strength. Wound healing, in particular, highlights the power of the human body in times of crisis – manipulating its resources and cells to restore homeostasis. But what happens when that fails? What happens if it’s a traumatic wound that gets infected, fails debridement? In high…
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همه ما دلمان میخواهد از درد و رنج فرار کنیم و زندگی را به آسودگی و لذت سپری کنیم. اما ما با درد به دنیا می آییم و در رنج گرفتار می شویم. بسیاری از ما درد را در بدن و روان و ذهنمان احساس مرده ایم اما اما آیا تفاوتی بین درد یا رنج می بینید؟ آیا ما نقشی در انتخاب رنج هایمان داریم؟نشانه های رنج کشیدن در شما چیست؟ آیا راهی برای شناسایی رنج هایی که بر خو…
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Checklists have been instituted in many sectors to help streamline processes. They are there to make things easier and bring peace of mind by eliminating forgotten aspects of a procedures. Surgery is no different. The surgical checklist is vital to the delivery of safe surgery around the world, however, checklist implementation involves changing mi…
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