Ep. 100 Evolving Landscape of Interventional Radiology: Key Insights with Dr. Chris Beck
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This week on the Back Table Podcast. But if you told an interventional radiologist you're gonna do a procedure day that you've never done, but you've got the know-how, you can do it, you have the technical skills to get it done, you just haven't done it. Most people would say, game on, that's fine. And they have like the baseline skills that you need to do the procedure, you just don't have all the know-how, which has happened to me. Like I remember like for the same procedure I was talking about, and for all the prep that I did, when it came time to like inserting this device, had the package insert open. So this is a little piece. of paper that tells you how to deploy the device. The patient's on their belly and I have that piece of paper open on their back and I'm reading that as we're putting in the device, making sure that we're doing it correctly.
I had it in my head, but I was like, well the package insert's right here. Let's just keep this open. Yeah, it's just Let's just see. Yeah, it can't hurt.
Baxter. You saw that. Is that a new one? Yeah, I just put
that in there. Nice. I got a million of these. I got uh Bexter, um, Beck Bopop Your Demand, Baby Got Beck. Baby Got Beck. Beck in Business, Beck to the Future.
Back to the future. There's all kinds of good ones. What's your favorite?
Probably Baby Got Back.
Where did these come from? Who says these?
Oh, I don't know. Well, you just like if you have a last name like back that I mean, really anything that has back in it that you can just like sub in back and then they just start rolling and then friends like pile on. My brother who's a plaintiff's attorney, he doesn't do any advertising, but like the jokes are always like with him, like, get in a wreck, call Beck. He'll be at your beckoned call. Like there's all kinds of good stuff. It lends itself well to stuff like that.
I can't say I had the luxury of that with the last name like Pariq. No, few and four. Parik the Freak. That's all.
Oh, that's not bad. I like that.
So we meet again, Baxter. And what I want to know about is how many years out are you? Eleven years. Eleven years. Do you think about like being out from training as like a a hallmark date or is like is it all just like continue? I just I started being a doctor and I kept being a doctor.
No, no, I kinda thought of it, you know, I didn't give it a whole lot of thought, but then it was like I woke up one day and all of a sudden I was a mid career physician. And instead of me looking to partners or, you know, having to phone a friend, I felt like I was more receiving phone calls and like sometimes younger partners asking me for advice. I don't know when it happened, but it was like all of a sudden I went from being the new guy and my group, building up a practice. And then all of a sudden I was like handing over a practice and feeding the younger guys and then, you know, fielding questions. Like the reason I remember that because I had like major imposter syndrome. Like I thought these guys were super talented, well trained.
And I was like, why am I telling you what to do? I mean, you guys probably know better than me. But, you know, at the same time, I just tried to give the advice that I could. But yeah, I think it happened when I was like seven or eight years out. And then I don't know when it happened. But I assume one day I'm gonna wake up and you're just like the old guy, and all the stuff you're talking about's totally antiquated, and people like do not want your advice. Right.
as my kids are concerned, I'm already the old
guy.
Yeah,
yeah. So w when do your kids realize that? Like when they turn 10?
Yeah, ten is fair, I think. It's I mean all depends, but yeah, ten is fair. That it keeps going. Just starts then and it keeps going.
Right now my kid is five and it's a fantastic age because she really believes in her heart of hearts that I know everything. Partly because I did tell her I know everything. And like we keep the ruse going. Like she'll like we'll just be walking by and she'll be like, Who's that? What's their name? I'm like, Jimmy.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:04–6:26
2
What is the guest’s career background and how did they realize they were a mid‑career physician?
6:26–11:23
3
How does Dr. Beck prepare for infrequently performed or new interventional radiology procedures?
11:23–17:30
4
What strategies does he use to stay current with the rapidly evolving IR field?
17:30–25:27
5
Why is interventional radiology described as a “MacGyver‑like” culture and how does information sharing work?
25:27–27:44
Speakers
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