What do surgeon interactions with the police look like in the hospital? — Dr. Priya Prakash, Sharnae Phagan, Dr. William McKinley, Dr. Annie Polcari, and Dr. Lea Hoefer
Deep Cuts: Exploring Equity in Surgery
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We are kicking off our first episode of Deep Cuts Season 2! This episode, we explore what surgeon interactions with the police look like in the hospital. We touch on what sort of scenarios the police might be involved in, and the challenges surgeons face when interacting with the police. We also discuss ways to best support our patients in high-intensity situations such as these.
We are joined by Sharnae Phagan, Drs. Priya Prakash, Annie Polcari, Lea Hoefer, and William McKinley.
Sharnae Phagan is the trauma program manager at UChicago Medicine and was an ED trauma nurse for over 20 years.
Dr. Priya Prakash is a fellowship-trained surgeon who specializes in trauma, critical care and emergency surgery. Dr. Prakash’s research interests include trauma systems development and violence recovery programs.
Dr. William McKinley is a general surgery resident who graduated from the University of Louisville and is interested in pursuing trauma surgery.
Dr. Annie Polcari received her medical degree from the University of Miami and is interested in trauma and critical care. Most of her research is focused on public health and gun violence prevention.
Dr. Lea Hoefer received her medical degree from the University of Chicago and is also planning on pursuing trauma surgery and has been doing research with the trauma group for the past year and a half.
“Deep Cuts: Exploring Equity in Surgery” comes to you from the Department of Surgery at UChicago Medicine. Our host is Dr. Jen Vigneswaran. Our senior producer is Tony Liu. Our producer and editors include Alia Abiad, Caroline Montag, Nihar Rama, and Nitin Vidyasagar. Our podcast cover art comes to you from Pombie Silverman, episode art from Sam Higgins, and music from Sen Morimoto off of Sooper Records.
A special thanks this week to our guests Sharnae Phagan, Drs. Priya Prakash, Annie Polcari, Lea Hoefer, and William McKinley. To send us questions or comments or find out more about our work, visit our website, deepcuts.surgery.uchicago.edu, linked in the show notes. You can also follow us on Instagram at @deep-cuts-surgery.