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He Was Performing Esophagectomies in a Small-Town Hospital
We're revisiting a conversation from The Rural American Surgeon archives with Dr. Gary Timmerman, exploring what it takes to perform complex surgery in a rural hospital, including the preparation, surgical judgment, and technical skills required to take on major operations.
In this How I Do It episode, host Dr. Randy Lehman and Dr. Timmerman take an in-depth look at esophagectomy, including transhiatal and Ivor Lewis approaches, open versus robotic surgery, reconstruction techniques, and why every surgeon needs a backup plan when things don't go as expected.
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