Dr. Bryan Hartley

led me immediately to general surgery.

Yeah, couldn't agree more. The other side of that story is that I met my wife because she was interested in becoming a surgeon. And once I shared that piece of advice with her, she decided that she did not want to be a general surgeon at all, but wanted to be an emergency medicine doc. And I don't know what that means for our marriage.

Yeah, couldn't agree more. The other side of that story is that I met my wife because she was interested in becoming a surgeon. And once I shared that piece of advice with her, she decided that she did not want to be a general surgeon at all, but wanted to be an emergency medicine doc. And I don't know what that means for our marriage.

Yeah, couldn't agree more. The other side of that story is that I met my wife because she was interested in becoming a surgeon. And once I shared that piece of advice with her, she decided that she did not want to be a general surgeon at all, but wanted to be an emergency medicine doc. And I don't know what that means for our marriage.

Yeah, I've always been interested in problems you can't buy your way out of. So when I was training as a surgeon, there's this beautiful operation called a carotid endarterectomy, super high stakes surgery. It's so elegant and changes people's lives. So lots of surgeons fall in love with it. And for a while, I thought I was going to be a vascular surgeon. The problem is that it's so high stakes.

Yeah, I've always been interested in problems you can't buy your way out of. So when I was training as a surgeon, there's this beautiful operation called a carotid endarterectomy, super high stakes surgery. It's so elegant and changes people's lives. So lots of surgeons fall in love with it. And for a while, I thought I was going to be a vascular surgeon. The problem is that it's so high stakes.

Yeah, I've always been interested in problems you can't buy your way out of. So when I was training as a surgeon, there's this beautiful operation called a carotid endarterectomy, super high stakes surgery. It's so elegant and changes people's lives. So lots of surgeons fall in love with it. And for a while, I thought I was going to be a vascular surgeon. The problem is that it's so high stakes.

Yeah, strokes. No attending surgeon really feels comfortable letting you do it as a resident. You know, because if you mess it up, the patient has a stroke. Brain's pretty important stuff.

Yeah, strokes. No attending surgeon really feels comfortable letting you do it as a resident. You know, because if you mess it up, the patient has a stroke. Brain's pretty important stuff.

Yeah, strokes. No attending surgeon really feels comfortable letting you do it as a resident. You know, because if you mess it up, the patient has a stroke. Brain's pretty important stuff.

So what I wanted was I looked for a surgical trainer that would allow me to master all of the steps, both technical and planning wise, so that when I showed up in the operating room, it would be clear that I was there as a serious participant. And when I went online, I could not buy my way out of my problem. There were no surgical trainers that were anything close to what I wanted.

So what I wanted was I looked for a surgical trainer that would allow me to master all of the steps, both technical and planning wise, so that when I showed up in the operating room, it would be clear that I was there as a serious participant. And when I went online, I could not buy my way out of my problem. There were no surgical trainers that were anything close to what I wanted.

So what I wanted was I looked for a surgical trainer that would allow me to master all of the steps, both technical and planning wise, so that when I showed up in the operating room, it would be clear that I was there as a serious participant. And when I went online, I could not buy my way out of my problem. There were no surgical trainers that were anything close to what I wanted.

You could buy something that had fake skin over a fake blood vessel. So you could go through the act of cutting skin and then open it up and then the vessels right there. But that surgery, just like every surgery,

You could buy something that had fake skin over a fake blood vessel. So you could go through the act of cutting skin and then open it up and then the vessels right there. But that surgery, just like every surgery,

You could buy something that had fake skin over a fake blood vessel. So you could go through the act of cutting skin and then open it up and then the vessels right there. But that surgery, just like every surgery,

is 99 what you don't do every structure you don't injure yeah yeah everything you have to protect i mean for god's sakes everybody's watched a surgeon who has beautiful exposures and one that doesn't it's the difference between can the intern do the case versus does it need to be a fellow with an assist and there were no surgical trainers made like that none so i had to build it myself so that i could train on it

is 99 what you don't do every structure you don't injure yeah yeah everything you have to protect i mean for god's sakes everybody's watched a surgeon who has beautiful exposures and one that doesn't it's the difference between can the intern do the case versus does it need to be a fellow with an assist and there were no surgical trainers made like that none so i had to build it myself so that i could train on it

is 99 what you don't do every structure you don't injure yeah yeah everything you have to protect i mean for god's sakes everybody's watched a surgeon who has beautiful exposures and one that doesn't it's the difference between can the intern do the case versus does it need to be a fellow with an assist and there were no surgical trainers made like that none so i had to build it myself so that i could train on it

Yeah. So I got really involved in elaborate Halloween costumes. Oh, right. Great segue. Yeah. Well, it turns out that a knowledge of anatomy is really helpful in making accurate Halloween costumes. So these things sort of played off each other back and forth. And so I used glue and plastic bottles and latex tubes and felt to