We're back! Finally, after a 9 month self-imposed exile during the trifecta of the arrival of additional children 👨‍🍼, MD thesis submission 🎓, and the behemoth that is the FRCS 🥊, we're still standing, we've got the bruises to show for it, and its also right into the middle of our 3rd birthday. So happy birthday to us! 🥳🎉

It's been an eventful time! We talk about the joys of:

• Country life 🧑‍🌾🐄
• Stacking up training / academic / life events to breaking point 😅
• Ballpit academia and the virtues of AI 🤖
• Which is easier? Being on-call or being a parent? 🔪🧑‍🧒‍🧒
• Hollywood scriptwriting X FRCS..... the crossover you definitely don't want AND never asked for 📺😒
• Pimping yourself out to corporate overlords 🤑

We are lining things up again, but Assad also has to wrestle with the final part of the FRCS in the next few months, so episodes may be sporadic... Please be patient with us.

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Brought to you in the middle of ARCP season and family holidays, we get introspective and put ourselves under the microscope, to explore why we ended up down the the route we did 🔬

• Why do so many brown people end up in medicine?👳🏾‍♂️ 🩺
• Is it hardwired into ethnic DNA?🧬
• Cultural and racial differences we can only discuss as friends…😬
• Private vs. state education and the relative merits of each 🎩 🍾
• How is the transition into the surgical persona beneficial for life? 🧑‍🧑‍🧒‍🧒

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John Cusack in ‘Say Anything’: https://youtu.be/VEgu7jdc_fs

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Don't worry don't worry! Thank you for your concerns for welfare, we've not had a bust-up or lost interest; it's just that life/work/training/families get in our way and are making it increasingly difficult to find time to record. And with it having been ARCP season recently, we set our portfolios to overdrive at the expense of everything else.

What starts out as a catch-up devolves into a lengthy chat/rant about:

• Prophylactic tie-wearing to assert dominance
• Training and the conflicting directives therein
• Selling out to corporate sponsorship
• Peppa Pig
• Medical superstition

And more... Anyways aside from chronicling our trials and tribulations, we strategise on ways we plan to deliver what we set out to deliver in this season. More episodes to follow!

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The clip from Wayne's World https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lgLYGBbDNs

Orthopaedics vs. anaesthetics BMJ Xmas study https://www.bmj.com/content/343/bmj.d7506

Just like Stevie Wonder says, superstition ain't the way: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0883944118303770#

The Peppa Pig effect https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2021/jul/19/peppa-pig-american-kids-british-accents

This episode was actually recored on the day the man, the legend Brian Wilson died, inspiring the title of this episode https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lP8BZcyoEQ

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