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The Kinked Wire
The Society of Interventional Radiology (SIR) brings you a new podcast on all the topics that impact your practice of IR, with focused subseries reflecting the broad range of the specialty. In each episode, hosts and guests discuss new clinical opportunities, practice management tips, the latest trends and developments in the specialty, and more. Learn more on sirweb.org, irq.sirweb.org, and sirweb.org/kinkedwire. If you have any ideas for topics or guests, or have any other feedback, let us…
Episodes
The Kinked WireSpecial update: IR perspectives on COVID-19: New York | Guest: Akhi Sista
The media portrayed scenes of just terror, frankly, particularly at Elmhurst Hospital. You see these lines of people that are waiting outside with so much…
The Kinked WireEpisode 10: The ongoing evolution of IVC filters | Guest: Matt Johnson
You don’t just put a filter in and forget about it—but that’s what used to happen. And when you put a filter in, it’s like anything else. We are clinical…
The Kinked WireSpecial update: IR perspectives on COVID-19: Atlanta | Guest: Janice Newsome
We may not have had everything we wanted, but we had most of the things we needed. And most of the things we needed were our own ingenuity, our own…
The Kinked WireEpisode 9: Connecting everywhere: SIR 2020 goes virtual | Guest: Tino Peña
It’s kind of been a roller coaster ride. We’re all excited about everything that was gong to happen with the annual meeting … And then at the beginning of the…
The Kinked WireSpecial update: IR perspectives on COVID-19: Chicago | Guest: George Behrens
I am originally from a third-world country. When I moved to the United States, I couldn’t believe all the resources that were being wasted in America. And I…
The Kinked WireSpecial update: IR perspectives on COVID-19: Palo Alto, California | Guest: Raj Shah
One thing I was recognizing very quickly was that, at that time, there was very little guidance from the CDC. A lot of the information was coming from…
The Kinked WireEpisode 8: IR perspectives on COVID-19: Seattle | Guest: Torre Andrews
There was a report that several people had been sick, and several were transported to hospitals. The next thing we heard was that all of the ambulance crews…
The Kinked WireEpisode 7: Financial planning for the interventional radiologist | Guest: Clint Gossage
Figure out your targets and then automate as much as possible, be it through automatic transfers, automate your savings, move it to a separate account that…
The Kinked WireEpisode 6: Wellness and burnout in interventional radiology | Guest: Felicia Speed
If you put yourself in a place where you say, "Oh, that will never happen to me because I'm strong, and I'm stoic, and I have it under control and I have all…
The Kinked WireEpisode 5: The potential of C-TRACT to help PTS patients | Guests: Suresh Vedantham and Mary Costantino
ATTRACT essentially found that, really, it's the people with iliofemoral deep vein thrombosis (DVT) who are the ones most likely to benefit and that, in fact…
The Kinked WireEpisode 4: Demonstrating the value of interventional radiology | Guests: Matt Hawkins and Stephanie L. Dybul
Without being able to articulate what that value is, I’m sure many IRs across the country can relate to the struggle that might ensue when you’re trying to…
The Kinked WireEpisode 3: A path to leadership in interventional radiology | Guest: Laura Findeiss
That could actually create a really big void if we’re not in communities taking care of patients. We’re the “go-to,” we’re necessary in these big systems or…
The Kinked WireEpisode 2: Building referrals through video-based marketing | Guest: A.J. Gunn
It’s not me trying to do five more so that you guys do five less. It’s my trying to work with you to reach out to these women who are suffering in silence out…
The Kinked WireEpisode 1: Fostering D&I in interventional radiology | Guest: Alan H. Matsumoto
During that time period, many of the Japanese Americans, like my parents who were born in the United States, were a quiet bunch of people ... and so my parents…