Introducing, Dr. Jonathan Bernard

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Well, hello everybody. Welcome back to
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the Aesthetic Angle podcast here at
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Monarch Plastic Surgery Skin and
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Wellness. I'm Dr. Paul Ley. I'm going to
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uh be very honored to um I've been
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thinking about this episode for a long
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time. This is Dr. John Bernard. Uh he is
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our brand new surgeon. Um I honestly
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been thinking about this for a long
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time, even since we met. Like one day
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we're going to have to pull pull this
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episode off and introduce you to
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everybody.
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>> Um same here. So uh we are Monarch
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technically now we were just talking
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about this a second ago is actually
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eight surgeons. So uh Dr. Bonet is kind
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of our surgeon ameritus if you will and
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uh kind of kind of phasing out a
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clinical surgery but still helping us
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out a lot. And
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>> so that makes Monarch one of the biggest
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groups around really in the country at
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least for private practice. Uh there
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certainly are bigger ones in big cities
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and stuff like that but we're we're
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proud of that
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>> and um Dr. We could not be more proud
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and happy to have you join us. Um,
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>> thank you.
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>> I thought I would just um tell people a
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little bit how we met a little bit, how
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this came to be, and then
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>> I'll, you know, ask you to give your
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take on things, too. Um,
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>> that sounds good.
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>> So, you correct me if I'm wrong. The way
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that I kind of remember it as going down
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was probably like maybe um fall to
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Thanksgiving time of 2024. So, a couple
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years ago. And um I have a neighbor down
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the street uh Dr. Greg Hildebrand and
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he's a good buddy of yours and he's like
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hey
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>> you know I have this friend um he's
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finishing his training in plastic
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surgery at Ohio State
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>> and you know maybe fun to connect or
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whatever and so we did you know and I
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remember I met you for the first time
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with Dr. Spaniel Dr. Hodge across the
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street. We were just like Christmas time
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or something. I think you were Yes.
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>> hanging out with your family and stuff
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like that. And um
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>> anyways, you don't know this, but after
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you left, I think the three of us were
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like, "Oh,
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>> this guy belongs here. This this is
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great." So, anyway, the conversation
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kept going, but um
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>> Yeah.
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>> Let's see. So, you grew up in
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Hutcherson, Kansas. Yep. People love it
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when they call Hutch City, right?
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Whatever. Is that really?
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>> Yeah. Or just Hutch. And it's funny,
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too, cuz I was actually uh my parents
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still live in South Hutch,
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>> which is uh a smaller town just right
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outside Hutch.
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>> Um so yeah, I I'm from South Hutch, but
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went to high school and everything else
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in Hutch. Okay.
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>> Born and raised.
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>> And that's for people who don't know,
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cuz I didn't originally, but it's really
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near Witchah, right? Just north.
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>> Well, it's it's just a little bit
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northwest and it's about a 45minute
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drive.
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>> Okay. So, yeah. All right. Just under an
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hour or so to get there. Stuff. So, um,
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and you played football, right, against
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Greg, but didn't know him as well then.
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Is that right?
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>> Yeah, we actually played football
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against each other in high school. Um,
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he was a far, far better athlete than I
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was. Um, but
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>> that's not what he says.
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>> I'm sure we could debate it.
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>> Um, but yeah, we played football against
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each other and then, uh, I also did
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wrestling and track.
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>> Okay.
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>> Yeah.
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>> And then then you guys, um, ended up at
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Kate.
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>> Yep. ended up at KState together. Um, we
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had a lot of classes together,
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>> but uh, it's kind of funny. He will
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>> joke around a lot that uh, I was we we
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sat at different ends of the classroom,
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not necessarily side to side, but front
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and back,
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>> right?
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>> Um, and but yeah, we had multiple
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classes together, uh, both majored in
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biology. And so that's when I got to
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know him more, but really it wasn't
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until medical school
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>> that I really got to know Greg well.
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>> And and so you guys went to KU Med
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together here in Kansas City. Yep.
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>> And uh did then did you guys sit
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together or was that
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>> Yeah. So it was pretty funny. Um I knew
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of him um because he, you know, had
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close friends. My wife's family is in
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Great Bend. He is from Great Bend. And
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so I'd kind of known of him throughout
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high school and at K State, but we had
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never really talked or really sat down,
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got to know each other uh until in
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medical school. It was we were in in
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medical school they had these different
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societies or different groups that
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students are uh put into and so our
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society was the wall society and I
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remember we were having a lunch one day
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like box lunches and having a lecture
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and he just came up and sat next to me
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and was like hey do you mind if I I sit
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with you and at that point it was you
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know where do you live everything like
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that found out he lives right down the
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hall in the same apartment oh yeah
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>> uh for my wife and I and from there uh
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he was it it became a ing joke amongst
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the med students that they thought that
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my roommate was Greg because he was
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always over at our at our house. We'd
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invite him to dinner and and uh that's
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when we just became great friends.
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>> That's awesome. I've heard him tell this
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story. It's funny. That's that's so
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good. Um and then let's see. So when did
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you meet your wife Aaron in this
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journey?
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>> Middle school.
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>> Oh gosh, a long time ago.
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>> Yeah. So um in she was in the Hutchinson
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school district. I was in the South
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Hutchinson School District. Um, which
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typically would funnel into Nickerson
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High School, but at 7th grade I
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transferred over to the Hutch district
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and that's when we first met was in
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seventh grade. Okay.
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>> But we didn't start dating or anything
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until high school.
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>> That's so crazy, man. I love that.
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That's a great story.
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>> Yeah, she's been a best friend for a
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long time.
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>> Yeah, that's awesome. Well, we we
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definitely got to touch on Aaron in a
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little bit, too, cuz she's also going to
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be with us here at Monarch. So, it's be
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it's going to be great.
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>> Um, and then let's see. So um you then
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you you kind of decided that surgery was
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your thing in med school. People kind of
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you may not people may not know this but
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sort of the class tends to divide into
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kind of a more of a medicine
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>> you know sort of focus or surgery or
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procedures you know and so
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>> Right.
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>> And when you know you just kind of know.
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>> Yeah.
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>> And so you were more surgery and Greg
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was kind of more medicine route.
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>> Yeah. And it and it's funny too because
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his dad is an orthopedic surgeon. He
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still works in Great Bend and is kind of
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your tried and trueue will do pretty
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much everything in the field of
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orthopedics. So I think a lot of us just
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assumed that Greg may go into one of the
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surgical specialties especially maybe
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even leaning towards orthopedics and I
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initially going into medical school
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thought I was going to go to pediatrics.
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Um and then once we did the after the
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first two years which is largely book
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work and exams and learning medicine
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then in your third and fourth year it's
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all clerkships and rotations. And that's
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when my first clerkship was surgery. And
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that's when I realized these are the
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people who I really actually enjoy being
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around and spending all my time with.
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And I the camaraderie and kind of that
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team aspect uh felt in a lot of ways uh
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a lot of similarities to sports and
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things like that.
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>> Yeah, that's a good analogy. Yeah,
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that's true. I think like I said, I
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mean, you just kind of hit you and if
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there's u they always have this old
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saying like if there's anything else you
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can do besides surgery, you should do
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it.
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But if it's if it's in your blood, it
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kind of just sticks there, you know.
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>> That's right.
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>> And then um so then then you went to So
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you did your your general surgery in
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South Alabama Mobile. Mobile
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>> Mobile
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>> Mobile and um and then went to the Ohio
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State for plastic surgery. So
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>> Yep.
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>> And here we are.
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>> Yeah, exactly. It's funny. I laugh just
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because of the the the that's added at
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the front. Um but my training at Ohio
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State was incredible. I can't um
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really put into words how phenomenal
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some of the teachers were and some of
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the mentors there. Um but I will say
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too, I'm really happy that um I did 3
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years of general surgery training prior
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to doing plastics. um just because I
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think it gave me a really good
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appreciation for surgery uh and the
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foundation and the understanding of
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dealing with critical patients in ICU
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settings or or trauma patients and being
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able to think under pressure.
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>> I I think a lot of people don't realize
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that plastic surgeons have that
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background. We all that's part of their
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core training is going through all
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trauma surgery, transplant surgery,
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vascular surgery, heart, lung, GI, you
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name it, neurosurgery, opthalmology,
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ENT. I mean, you have to have a because
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we get called in to,
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>> right?
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>> Hey, I have this problem. Can I need a
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plastic sur to help me? And so, if you
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don't know where to start,
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>> it's good to have that foundation. But,
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um, those are some long nights. And,
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>> you know, it seems like at the time it
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was more like
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>> that was more quantity of life, like
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we're saving saving people who just got
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seriously injured.
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>> Yeah.
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>> Now, plaster is more of like almost like
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a quality of life. Okay. Well, we we
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beat that or let's let's how can we try
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to improve form and function? And so
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it's a switch of gears a little bit.
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>> It is. Yeah. And it and it was it was
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like with anything in life, a transition
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can be challenging and bring its own um
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differences. But I do think it was nice
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to have that transition phase and being
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put in a new environment with a new
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system and new people and being able to
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learn how to adapt and and change the
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way even I operated my, you know,
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technical skills and like training
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myself to be, you know, a little bit
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more gentle or finesse with like finer
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tissues and things like that and and
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being able to to work in that way. that
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was different than, you know, doing
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laparoscopic surgery and and general
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surgery and then going into micro
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surgery and plastic surgery like those
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those things are very different. They
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use different skill sets. So, I think
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that was really good for me to
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experience both and the challenges of
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both.
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>> Yeah, I totally agree. I remember making
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that transition myself from general
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surgery over to plastic surgery and day
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one or two the chairman Dr. Tom Lawrence
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who I owe my whole career to. I love the
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guy. Um, and he was, you know, he he was
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tough and made sure we knew what we were
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doing, but
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>> he said, you know, um,
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>> be nice to the tissues and they will be
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nice to you. And so it is a different
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feel, you know, automatically when you
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walk in there. But um,
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>> very true.
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>> Well, yeah. So, it's it seemed like it
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just was a good fit for you and and then
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um, you know, everything everything's
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new in the first and then you kind of
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hone in on the things that you really
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liked and
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>> Right.
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>> What did you find you liked the best you
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think in plastic surgery?
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Um, I think I gravitated a lot towards
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um
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most of the the general plastic surgery
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core faculty and in cases and things
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like that at Ohio State, you know,
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facial trauma, breast reduction, breast
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and and body body contouring. And then
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also I feel like I I worked really well
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with the the private cosmetic group that
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we also rotated with and worked with a
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lot um who focused more on aesthetics
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and cosmetic surgery. Um and so those
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are the the two main things that I
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really enjoyed and and really wanted to
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to further myself into and and really
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liked. And that was the private cosmetic
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group was they also had a a good
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background in facial like cosmetic
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surgery as well. So that's where I got
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to learn most of those techniques. And
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then once I paired that with what I
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would see in trauma of the face, then it
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was really able to like mold the two
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together where you could see the anatomy
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and how you would fix facial trauma
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injuries and then also be able to assess
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and be able to examine for cosmetic
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deformities and things like that of the
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face and then be able to use the same
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skill set and anatomy knowledge in both
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fields. I mean, there's no other
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experience than getting to work through,
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say, for example, a cut or a bad
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laceration on the face that you're never
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going to make an incision there on
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purpose, you know, and here you get to
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see all this anatomy and okay, this is
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how all these things sort of relate, you
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know, and helps you for for cosmetic
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things, too.
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>> Definitely.
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>> And so, and your wife Aaron actually
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worked with that large cosmetic
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practice, right?
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>> Yes, she did. Yeah. and and that was
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kind of her transition. I think you know
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before we had moved to Columbus she was
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mostly in dermatology and and working in
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in that realm in that field. Um but when
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we moved to Columbus there were no
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dermatology jobs that she could really
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find that really fit what she was
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looking for. And so I remember her
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actually asking after she had found a
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plastic surgery opening and you know
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asked me what do you think? do you think
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this would be something good for me to
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try and and and potentially do? And and
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I thought, you know, it would be cool to
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be able to have like that same language
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and being able to speak about these
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patients and things like that from a
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different setting, private and academic.
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>> Um so I said, "Yeah, I think you know,
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I'll support you. Yeah, let's see what
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it's like." And I think when she went in
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the interview, uh, she had met Jason
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Hair who was a previous resident at Ohio
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State as well. And he was a phenomenal
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resident. Everyone would talk about him
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at Ohio State. And so I knew after her
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experience was really pleasant with him
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and and getting to meet him and his
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practice that I think it was the best
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place for her to be. And then from
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there, it was really cool to watch her
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just kind of climb the ranks while she
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was there. and really
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like it was awesome to see that people
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really valued her skill sets and see
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like how much potential and what she
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knows and understands and her work
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ethic. Um those are some of the the
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greatest attributes she has.
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>> Well, I can tell I can just tell Cook's
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story about that too cuz I experienced
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that more myself. So, and I didn't
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mention her. So, Aaron is a nurse. So,
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>> yes. and she functioned at it sounds
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like at that practice and sort of a role
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um you might call a cosmetic
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coordinator, sort of a person that would
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help guide patients through from start
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to finish from a procedure.
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>> But so we met for dinner here in Kansas
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City uh maybe like a Friday or Saturday
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evening I think probably
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>> probably around this time last year.
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Anyway, I remember I remember the
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conversation. I mean we were so we're
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like hey it's really nice to meet you
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John.
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>> Now back to Aaron now. how did you guys
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and she would give an answer like how
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how she would like for example um
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counsel a patient about facelift surgery
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you know and I remember Dr. Benet would
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say no no no no exactly how did you do
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it like and really picking her brain for
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that and so I think we we left that
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dinner like
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>> did you guys get to talk to Dr. Bernard.
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Okay, good. Cuz we really, you know, but
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we kind of knew right off the bat.
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>> We thought it was so funny. We laughed
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uh so much after that dinner, but we
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loved it because one, it showed that you
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all really appreciated us as a family
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and that you wanted her to be involved
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just as much as you wanted to get to
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know me. You wanted to also know my
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family, which really meant a lot to me
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in the interview process. But then also,
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it was really funny. Um during that
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interview we joked and I remember um you
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we had all been talking and everything
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like that and then once the our other
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like partners around the table started
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figuring out that Aaron had a lot of
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knowledge and understanding. It was
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funny how each individual surgeon would
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come up with different questions that
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>> they had. Yeah.
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>> And at one point I do remember you
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saying I think we need to ask you John a
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question at this point. We haven't asked
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him anything in a little while. And it
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was like I think I got what's your
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favorite color and what's your favorite?
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Do you have a favorite rock band? And I
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was like perfect blue queen. All right,
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back to Eric.
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>> I think Dylan said that. Yeah, that
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sounds like it. That's funny.
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>> Great.
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>> Well, yeah. I mean, it was just a it was
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just it's been a good fit, I think, when
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we started talking, you know, and and I
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think like you mentioned the cases that
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you found,
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>> you know, interesting. Even just what we
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might consider a breadandbut plastic
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surgery case like a breast reduction or
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reconstruction
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>> on into the cosmetic procedures. We
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that's what we do here, you know, we're
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we
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>> do general plastic surgery. We each have
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little, you know, things that we like to
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do more than others and stuff, but
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>> and that and that's that's great because
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we can do that here, too. We can sort
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of, you know, hand off and stuff like
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that, but Exactly. We like to be able to
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take care of the whole patient in terms
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of plastic surgery, you know. So,
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>> yeah,
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>> it's u
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>> Yeah, you're you're going to just fit so
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well. It's going to be great. Um,
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>> good. I'm excited. And so, and you guys
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have you have two younger kids and they
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just had their kind of first day a
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little bit today.
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>> First day of school today. Yeah, they're
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pretty excited.
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>> I know you're sitting I know the
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feeling. I know you're just feeling an
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anxious for them a little bit and and
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happy and excited, you know, but
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>> yeah, again, I mean, it's a it's a new
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transition for them, too. And um you
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know transitions can be tough and
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everything like that, but I think going
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through those tougher aspects, you learn
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a little bit more about yourself and and
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if you can adapt and figure out how to
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work in different environments with new
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people and different personalities and
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things like that, I feel like all those
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things suit you like even from a
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communication skill standpoint.
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>> Oh gosh, completely.
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>> So I know they're excited and plus they
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they just found out they get to have
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recess together so they're on
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>> Life is good.
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>> Yeah, they're on top of the world. have
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some lunch together and it's really on.
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You really got it. I mean, that's right.
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Well, I'm just, you know, as an aside, I
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mean, that doesn't go away. You know, my
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boys are older um and one finished
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college, one's starting um KU in the
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fall, and it just, you know, still all
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the emotions are like, I hope
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>> hope this goes well for him. Does he
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know where his classes are? You know,
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all this kind of stuff. So, my wife and
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I can, you know, that feeling doesn't go
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away. And
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>> I would say one of the joys of my life
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is um you know, being able to know my
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nurse Maggie so well. her kids are
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younger like yours and just you know
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>> the anticipation of a new grade and
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>> you know finding friends and stuff like
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that. It's just the fundamental stuff of
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life that we worry about, you know, for
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>> Definitely. And it's fun. I mean, you
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just care so much about your kids that
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>> Oh, gosh.
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>> you just you want everything to work out
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smoothly and well for them,
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>> but at the same time, yeah, I think
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through some of those challenges, they
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>> learn a little bit about themselves and
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become more independent. And you want
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your kids to be as independent as
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possible.
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>> Completely. And, you know, it's funny
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the words you're using are exactly what
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you and I go through as we, you know,
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become surgeons and stuff like that. And
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you know the
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you still have moments of like okay did
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I make I want to think through this case
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one more time you know and and I
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remember a case I had 5 years ago that
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did we did this and I liked or didn't
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like that.
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>> Yeah
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>> make adjustments you know and like you
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say always growing and learning and
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stuff and
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>> um
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>> and you know when I believe you feel
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this already but I'm just say it again.
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I mean, all of us here want to help you
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succeed. I mean, so we're It's the
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nicest thing about Monarch when I was
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starting in your shoes was I I can walk
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down the hallway
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>> and get five other consults on any case
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I wanted without any judgment. Like,
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hey, I know it seems silly. He says,
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"I've done this. I've taken off a mole a
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million times, but what do you think
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about this?" Oh, yeah. No, no, no. I
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even those can be confusing sometimes.
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So,
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>> the easiest case or operation can have
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its challenges.
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>> Yeah. Um, and I feel like I've had
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really good mentors who have shown me
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that. And so when looking for looking at
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different jobs and interviewing with
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different groups and things like that, I
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I felt like this group had people who
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are willing to like look out for each
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other as almost like a family. Yeah. And
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that collaborative effort is I think
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what then can provide some of the best
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patient care and being able to take care
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of people is when you when you do have
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this kind of collegial academic
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questioning atmosphere where we can
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discuss a case and I can get your
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thoughts and I can walk down the hall
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and and speak to one of the other
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partners and get their thoughts on it
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too and I'll probably get two different
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answers completely. And that's kind of
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the beauty of plastics, too, is that
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there's no one perfect way to do every
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case.
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>> You can like mold it to the patient and
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and what they are wanting and what
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they're hoping to get out of it. And so,
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it's cool to get people's insight
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because you've obviously seen all of
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this much more than I have and are far
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more experienced. So, it's good to have
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people in a practice, in a group who
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have that experience that then you can
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lean into.
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>> Totally. And actually, and I get to do
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that with you as well because that that
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is another great thing about having I'm
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kind of right in the dead middle right
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now of the age range, you know, and
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people ahead of me that, oh, you know,
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that I've that that product was tried 10
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years ago, it didn't work. Why? It's
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it's there's nothing different about it,
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you know, but yet having younger
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surgeons also come up and say, well,
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this is, you know, this is kind of the
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the new standard, you know, it's and so
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it forces you to keep up and all those
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things work.
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So um and then um you know this you know
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that concept of kind of like when you
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you meet somebody in life and you just
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have this instant kind of a like a feel
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like you know I think that happened both
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with both you and Aaron to have us join
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Monarch because it was kind of like
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>> there's something here like particularly
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with Aaron since we' already kind of
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really wanted you to join us but like
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hadn't met Aaron before that dinner and
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like hey
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>> there's something unique about this
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person and her talents. Yeah,
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>> we don't have a we don't have a defined
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role for her, but we need to find one.
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>> And that's I think that's just kind of
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how all the stuff kind of
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>> came into kind of the magic of it, I
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guess, a little bit, you know? So,
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>> and I think it's going to be great for
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her. I mean, I think her doing different
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transitions and things like that is is a
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challenge, but I think with every stage
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of her career, as she's taken on more
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responsibility, she finds herself
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happier.
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>> Her work ethic is insane. It's really
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impressive and it's honestly something I
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I look up to a lot in her um is that how
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much she cares about not only her work
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but how the patients are treated like
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you know I watched her message and
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answer multiple emails over the weekend
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things like that speaking to patients uh
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you know rooming them getting vital some
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of those things that even wasn't in her
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scope whatever just helped the surgeon
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and the team like she was always willing
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just like step up and do those things.
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So, I think even though in some of these
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roles uh here they're not as defined
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just yet, I think that that little space
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or wiggle room for her, it's probably
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going to help her even shine more in in
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what her strengths and capabilities are.
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>> Oh, yeah. She'll find new things that
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she likes and keep going. And
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>> one of the truly one of the joys I think
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that all of us uh the surgeons group
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here have is when we get to operate
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together. It doesn't happen that often,
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but sometimes if there's a really,
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>> you know, interesting case or something
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challenging or just, hey, I got a break.
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Let me come help you. So,
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>> you just, you know, just being around it
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and and talking and stuff like that is
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is is truly one of the joys, you know,
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>> we kind of wish that could happen
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sometimes more, but we just get so busy
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and, you know, different places and
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stuff like that. But,
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>> and it's probably something you take for
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granted sometimes, too. Just really
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getting along well with your your
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colleagues.
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>> Oh, yeah. I mean, you know, the thing
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about this place, I mean, it's we're
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getting up there in terms of the number
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of employees we have. It's kind of it's
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kind of become a small company.
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>> Yeah.
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before before my eyes. I mean, I don't
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really know how this happened, but here
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we are, you know, and um but like at the
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same time, um the thing that makes us
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most excited, like, you know, you're
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running, like I say, you're running a
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business, you got to order supplies, you
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have employees, you got HR, you got
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stuff, but the thing that really get you
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gets us excited if you get us in a room
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and present a case.
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>> Yeah.
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>> Like, hey, I saw this patient with
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significant breast asymmetry, left and
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right, totally different. What do you I
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mean you will see us get up in our
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chairs and like oh yeah wow that is
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>> that is kind of crazy you know you might
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think about this and and someone across
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the table no you know what I did that
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once it didn't I didn't like the anyway
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>> it's that's still the passion you know
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that's still the core is what we do as
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surgeons and so
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>> right you're always just trying to get
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the best possible outcome
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>> and I feel like when you have those
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little pieces it like it's it's an
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age-old like adage of you know more
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brains are better than one. And so if
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you have multiple people pointing out
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different things that they would
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consider, then it may be something that
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you'd never thought of or even
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considered with that patient.
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>> But I agree with you. Some of those
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cases can be really challenging and it's
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nice to just bounce ideas off someone
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else just to see
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>> if they would do anything different.
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>> Yeah. Well, I was you and I were kind of
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walking around the building a little
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bit. I know you've been here a little
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bit um but not gotten to meet everybody
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yet. I'm so excited to take you around
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and introduce you and stuff like that.
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and um you'll you'll quickly catch on
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and it's way harder when you're the one
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of you getting meet all these people.
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It's hard to you know get names out the
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first bat, but it'll it'll come easy.
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But um
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>> we're uh we're currently working on
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getting you an actual office. We are
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interviewing you to have a primary nurse
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and stuff like that. So these things are
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kind of
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>> sometimes you wish they'd happen faster,
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but anyway, they they're evolving.
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>> Yep. The wheels are turning. We got a
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place for you to sit. So I'm I'm very
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grateful. So
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>> this is going to be great.
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>> It's going to be good. And you know, I
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think um just to let all the viewers
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know too, I think our at least our
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initial plan is to
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>> have you have some clinical time at all
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three of our main locations. So here in
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Leewood, um our newer site we've had for
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just over a year, I think in Lee Summit
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and then our North Kansas City office.
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And um you know, we'll just see how that
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goes. It could be too much driving and
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just got to pair it down. But anyway,
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it's
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>> yeah,
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>> we have some room to grow at all those
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places and and like to take care of the
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the city. So, um,
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>> and you'll be able to eventually, uh,
00:25:06.640 --> 00:25:07.830
there I know we're building out your
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schedules and making that all work,
00:25:09.279 --> 00:25:11.269
right? And, um, also we're we're real
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proud that soon you can do consultations
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and book consultations with Dr. Bernard
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online. Yeah.
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>> Which a lot of people really favor that
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too. Um, anyway, just a matter of
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turning all these little switches and
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and making everything happen. But, um,
00:25:23.840 --> 00:25:26.950
>> yeah, super super excited. Um, do you
00:25:26.960 --> 00:25:28.549
have something already that you know
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like a a part of your practice that you
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really want to develop or work on or or
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run with?
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>> Yeah, I mean I think I would I would
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love to focus my my skills and kind of
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talents mostly in in breast and body uh
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but also with that facial cosmetics and
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aesthetics as well. Um, you know, being
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able to do like different forms of
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facelift procedures, being able to do
00:25:56.240 --> 00:25:58.070
different techniques for breast
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augmentation, breast lift, um, and then
00:26:01.679 --> 00:26:04.070
other, you know, breadandbut really
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tried and true operations such as breast
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reductions and and things like that
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after massive weight loss for some
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patients too, especially body
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contouring.
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>> And being able to just
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>> get people to the point where they feel
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really comfortable again. That's that's
00:26:18.720 --> 00:26:19.830
really my goal.
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>> Yeah. You know, the the Midwest is
00:26:21.520 --> 00:26:23.750
interesting in that um for whatever
00:26:23.760 --> 00:26:26.710
reason I my my gut feeling is that a lot
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of the beriatric surgery procedures kind
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of really
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>> were very popular here at least in the
00:26:31.760 --> 00:26:35.110
metro and therefore um people losing
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weight at rapid amounts, you know, and
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so like in my training that I didn't
00:26:39.520 --> 00:26:41.029
hear other people on other sides of the
00:26:41.039 --> 00:26:42.230
country talking about, but we were
00:26:42.240 --> 00:26:43.909
dealing with 100 pound weight loss
00:26:43.919 --> 00:26:45.909
patients and this is a completely new
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thing. How are you how do you deal with
00:26:47.679 --> 00:26:48.950
all that extra skin? How do you stage
00:26:48.960 --> 00:26:50.470
it? Where are your you know, how do you
00:26:50.480 --> 00:26:51.990
plan that all out? Safety,
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>> right? Yeah.
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>> And then of course with the new weight
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loss medications which we see so
00:26:56.080 --> 00:26:57.750
commonly, we're seeing
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>> even different changes.
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>> Definitely.
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>> So, you know, that'll be and you've been
00:27:01.279 --> 00:27:02.549
a part of that too. So, it'll be kind of
00:27:02.559 --> 00:27:03.430
fun to
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>> hear your approach to, you know, how you
00:27:04.960 --> 00:27:06.390
break things apart and stuff. So,
00:27:06.400 --> 00:27:07.669
>> yeah, I think it's very exciting. I
00:27:07.679 --> 00:27:10.390
think it's becoming uh more numerous
00:27:10.400 --> 00:27:12.789
than people realize as far as the volume
00:27:12.799 --> 00:27:15.190
of that that patient base and and it's
00:27:15.200 --> 00:27:16.950
great that people are able to have
00:27:16.960 --> 00:27:19.990
different ways either surgical or uh
00:27:20.000 --> 00:27:21.830
medical that they can be able to lose
00:27:21.840 --> 00:27:24.710
this weight and be able to find the life
00:27:24.720 --> 00:27:26.470
that they're they're wanting and being
00:27:26.480 --> 00:27:28.549
able to be active. But what people don't
00:27:28.559 --> 00:27:30.549
think is just losing the weight doesn't
00:27:30.559 --> 00:27:32.549
always get rid of all the skin
00:27:32.559 --> 00:27:35.110
>> and being able to be able to move and in
00:27:35.120 --> 00:27:36.789
your body to be able to function and be
00:27:36.799 --> 00:27:39.669
active again. Sometimes a lot of that
00:27:39.679 --> 00:27:41.190
excess skin and things can really get in
00:27:41.200 --> 00:27:43.990
the way and hinder that ability. And so
00:27:44.000 --> 00:27:46.149
those are different things that like I
00:27:46.159 --> 00:27:47.909
would like to be able to give patients
00:27:47.919 --> 00:27:49.110
like what you were talking about that
00:27:49.120 --> 00:27:51.590
quality of life back to be able to make
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it to where they can feel like they can
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move and function in a body that they
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feel comfortable with and in and it's
00:27:57.919 --> 00:28:00.549
not painful still for them to have to
00:28:00.559 --> 00:28:03.350
deal with, you know, rashes or chafing,
00:28:03.360 --> 00:28:04.630
all these different things that come up
00:28:04.640 --> 00:28:05.909
that some people don't think of.
00:28:05.919 --> 00:28:07.190
>> Yeah. Take advantage of all the hard
00:28:07.200 --> 00:28:09.909
work they just put in, you know. So,
00:28:09.919 --> 00:28:11.190
>> um,
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>> well, let's see. Um, we were talking out
00:28:13.600 --> 00:28:15.190
in the hallway. I know you're you you
00:28:15.200 --> 00:28:17.430
moved to Kansas City from Ohio and you
00:28:17.440 --> 00:28:19.350
guys have a house and been working on it
00:28:19.360 --> 00:28:21.430
a little bit this summer and uh you were
00:28:21.440 --> 00:28:22.630
just telling me you're doing a your own
00:28:22.640 --> 00:28:24.470
bathroom renovation and stuff like that.
00:28:24.480 --> 00:28:25.669
So, I know you got
00:28:25.679 --> 00:28:27.510
>> all kinds of projects going on. Love it.
00:28:27.520 --> 00:28:29.990
>> Yeah, I'm I'm very amateur, but I I love
00:28:30.000 --> 00:28:32.230
to learn and uh and find different
00:28:32.240 --> 00:28:34.149
things that are new. Yeah.
00:28:34.159 --> 00:28:37.590
>> And um so yeah, my wife and I, we've
00:28:37.600 --> 00:28:40.230
decided on our main level, there's like
00:28:40.240 --> 00:28:41.590
a powder bath
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>> that, you know, maybe wasn't the color
00:28:44.240 --> 00:28:45.990
that we were wanting and maybe didn't
00:28:46.000 --> 00:28:48.389
love the wallpaper. And so we've decided
00:28:48.399 --> 00:28:50.870
to completely renovate it and
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>> you know, tear out the flooring and and
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paint everything and retile and and all
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that, you know, is
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>> comes with its own challenges and you
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kind of have to learn and work through
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them. Yes. Uh but it's been rewarding
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and yeah, it's been exciting.
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>> Yeah.
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>> Well, I I noticed on your um if you look
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at Dr. Bernard's CV or resume. I mean,
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it is full of all the way from when you
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were much younger of med school and
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stuff like all these outreach community
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things that you were a part of and
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>> you know, um helping people that are
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disadvantaged and stuff like that. I'm
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sure you you'll be able to do something
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like that in Kansas City still.
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>> Oh, yeah. We're really excited. I I
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think even on one of our drives back um
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from Ohio, we were talking about
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different organizations and things that
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we could get involved with in Kansas
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City. So, I we're really excited about
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that. And I agree that that has been I
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mean, one of the primary things that
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>> really got me into medicine in the first
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place was just kind of humble beginnings
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and and trying to better myself and my
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family as much as possible. And then now
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that I'm in a position where I can give
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back, not only from an educational or
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even just a time perspective, but I want
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to do as much as I possibly can.
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>> Oh man, it's you have all of the right
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building blocks to get you to this day
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or next week, I guess, when you
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physically physically start, but um
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>> to just have an awesome career and we're
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we're so glad you decided to do that
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here with us at Monarch. So
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>> Oh, yeah. It was an easy decision.
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>> Good, good, good. No, I'm I feel I feel
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grateful and very blessed to to be here.
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I really do.
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>> Well, we appreciate you coming on doing
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the first podcast here and stuff like
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that. We enjoy doing these things and
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little, you know, YouTube videos and
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stuff. So,
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>> definitely
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>> um welcome from the bottom of our all of
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our hearts and we're here to help you
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out. So,
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>> well, thank you for joining us today. Um
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again, you can uh get on Dr. Bernard's
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schedule here real soon once you get all
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the details ironed out. So, we
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appreciate you joining us today. Thank
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you very much.
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>> Yeah, thank you.