Dr. Richard Bosshardt
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I mean, you're really hurting yourself and the patient if you can't get that trust pretty quickly because when you walk into the ER, you don't have a lot of time to connect. You can't be doing those nice social things. So my ban remains in place. I'm still banned. The ACS will not engage with me.
I mean, you're really hurting yourself and the patient if you can't get that trust pretty quickly because when you walk into the ER, you don't have a lot of time to connect. You can't be doing those nice social things. So my ban remains in place. I'm still banned. The ACS will not engage with me.
I mean, you're really hurting yourself and the patient if you can't get that trust pretty quickly because when you walk into the ER, you don't have a lot of time to connect. You can't be doing those nice social things. So my ban remains in place. I'm still banned. The ACS will not engage with me.
Oh, no, not at all. Not at all. They'll refuse. I've written multiple letters. I wrote letters to the last two presidents. I never get an answer back. I wrote letters.
Oh, no, not at all. Not at all. They'll refuse. I've written multiple letters. I wrote letters to the last two presidents. I never get an answer back. I wrote letters.
Oh, no, not at all. Not at all. They'll refuse. I've written multiple letters. I wrote letters to the last two presidents. I never get an answer back. I wrote letters.
Problem is you don't know who those ideologues are unless you start naming names.
Problem is you don't know who those ideologues are unless you start naming names.
Problem is you don't know who those ideologues are unless you start naming names.
Can you tell us what you mean? In fact, I'm delighted you said that because I don't want this to be about me. Yeah, I'm the one sitting in front of the microphone. I'm the one that was banned. But the issue is so far beyond me. In my 38 years of surgery, I have gradually watched the quality of training in young surgeons deteriorate.
Can you tell us what you mean? In fact, I'm delighted you said that because I don't want this to be about me. Yeah, I'm the one sitting in front of the microphone. I'm the one that was banned. But the issue is so far beyond me. In my 38 years of surgery, I have gradually watched the quality of training in young surgeons deteriorate.
Can you tell us what you mean? In fact, I'm delighted you said that because I don't want this to be about me. Yeah, I'm the one sitting in front of the microphone. I'm the one that was banned. But the issue is so far beyond me. In my 38 years of surgery, I have gradually watched the quality of training in young surgeons deteriorate.
noticeably in my own little backyard, watching young surgeons come out that have no business operating by themselves. You've seen that? I've seen that. Oh, yeah, absolutely. I can give you some examples. Please do. This was actually a few years back. I had a new surgeon in town at a hospital that I worked at. I do breast reconstruction, so I worked a lot with the surgeons.
noticeably in my own little backyard, watching young surgeons come out that have no business operating by themselves. You've seen that? I've seen that. Oh, yeah, absolutely. I can give you some examples. Please do. This was actually a few years back. I had a new surgeon in town at a hospital that I worked at. I do breast reconstruction, so I worked a lot with the surgeons.
noticeably in my own little backyard, watching young surgeons come out that have no business operating by themselves. You've seen that? I've seen that. Oh, yeah, absolutely. I can give you some examples. Please do. This was actually a few years back. I had a new surgeon in town at a hospital that I worked at. I do breast reconstruction, so I worked a lot with the surgeons.
Together, they'll remove the cancerous breast. Sometimes, a lot of times, they'll remove the other breast simultaneously. And then I will come in and do the reconstruction. And I was doing a lot of these cases where you take the abdominal tissue and you create one or two breasts with the abdominal tissue, which is a great procedure, but very significant, time-consuming, and whatnot. Yeah.
Together, they'll remove the cancerous breast. Sometimes, a lot of times, they'll remove the other breast simultaneously. And then I will come in and do the reconstruction. And I was doing a lot of these cases where you take the abdominal tissue and you create one or two breasts with the abdominal tissue, which is a great procedure, but very significant, time-consuming, and whatnot. Yeah.
Together, they'll remove the cancerous breast. Sometimes, a lot of times, they'll remove the other breast simultaneously. And then I will come in and do the reconstruction. And I was doing a lot of these cases where you take the abdominal tissue and you create one or two breasts with the abdominal tissue, which is a great procedure, but very significant, time-consuming, and whatnot. Yeah.
And there's a lot of things that have to be done. And this surgeon offered to help me close the abdominal part of the operation or to do it for me so that I could concentrate on the breast. I said, great, this probably cut an hour and a half or two hours out of my operating time. And so I glanced down to see what he was doing. And he's taking these massive bites of tissue.
And there's a lot of things that have to be done. And this surgeon offered to help me close the abdominal part of the operation or to do it for me so that I could concentrate on the breast. I said, great, this probably cut an hour and a half or two hours out of my operating time. And so I glanced down to see what he was doing. And he's taking these massive bites of tissue.