In this episode, Tom Varghese, MD, MS, MBA, FACS, is joined by Anai N Kothari MD, FACS, MS, FSSO, from the Medical College of Wisconsin. They discuss Dr Kothari’s recent article, “Association of Daily Step Count and Postoperative Complication among All of Us Research Participants,” in which the authors used preoperative wearable device data from 47…

In this episode, Tom Varghese, MD, MS, MBA, FACS, is joined by Lauren M Janczewski, MD, MS, from Northwestern University, and Yue-Yung Hu, MD, MPH, FACS, from the Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital and Northwestern Quality Improvement, Research, and Education in Surgery (NQUIRES). They discuss their recent article, “Contemporary Evaluation o…

In this episode, Tom Varghese, MD, FACS is joined by Calista M Harbaugh, MD, MSc, from the University of Michigan. They discuss Dr Harbaugh’s recent study, “Association of National Accreditation Program for Rectal Cancer Accreditation with Outcomes after Rectal Cancer Surgery,” in which the authors found that hospitals accredited by the National Ac…

In this episode, Lillian Erdahl, MD, FACS is joined by Todd Rosengart, MD, FACS, from the Baylor College of Medicine. They discuss Dr Rosengart’s recent article, “Sustaining Lifelong Competency of Surgeons: Multimodality Empowerment Personal and Institutional Strategy,” which focuses on maintaining and ensuring the competency of an aging surgeon wo…

In this episode, Tom Varghese, MD, FACS is joined by Jamie Coleman, MD, FACS, from the University of Louisville. They discuss Dr Coleman’s recent article, “Home Is Not Always Where the Sleep Is: The Effect of Home Call on Sleep, Burnout, and Surgeon Well-Being”, which quantifies sleep loss and burnout associated with home call in acute care surgeon…

In this episode, Tom Varghese, MD, FACS is joined by Jeremy Cannon, MD, SM, FACS, from the University of Pennsylvania. They discuss Dr Cannon’s Excelsior Surgical Society Presidential Address, emphasizing the crucial contribution of expeditionary surgical leaders in World War II and how their legacy serves as an example for military and civilian su…

In this episode, Lillian Erdahl, MD, FACS is joined by Dai Chung, MD, FACS, from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center. They discuss Dr Chung’s recent study, which demonstrates that poor health outcomes among pediatric solid tumor patients are associated with minority race and residence in rural or border regions, and that the 5-year …

Liz and Aaron strap in for some bug-blastin' action with Helldivers 2! Sure, you shoot bugs, destroy automatons, and spread managed democracy, but is it a good cooperative game? Does it past the COFI test? SPOILER: If you listen to this episode you will find out! PLUS: Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor isn't a co-op game but we're enthralled with it any…

In this episode, Lillian Erdahl, MD, FACS is joined by Amy Hernandez, MD, FACS, from the Department of Surgery, Naval Medical Center San Diego. They discuss Dr Hernandez’s recent study, which uses literature review, personal interviews, and correspondence with Navy Medicine administrative leaders to describe the evolution of women providing surgica…

In this episode, Lillian Erdahl, MD, FACS, is joined by Erin M Scott, MD, MPH, from the University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School. They discuss Dr Scott’s recent study, which outlines recommendations of the American College of Surgeons Resident and Associate Society Global Surgery Work Group for involvement of trainees in global surgery, with…

We're back, we had a baby, we adopted a dog, and we played a lot of games. Let's do this. About The Co-Operatives Podcast --- Subscribe to The Co-Operatives by heading to ListenToTheCoOps.com! (or use our RSS feed: https://feeds.simplecast.com/9xRUL1ta) --- Reach out to The Co-Operatives by tweeting to the Hoodie Weather account @about60degrees on …

In this episode, Dr Tom Varghese is joined by Jessica Cohan, MD, FACS, from the University of Utah. They discuss Dr Cohan’s recent study, which used statewide medical records linked with genealogy data to evaluate the familial contributions to diverticulitis. The results indicate that diverticulitis has a significant heritable component, which may …

In this episode, Dr Jamie Coleman is joined by Shayna Showalter, MD, from the University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, VA. They discuss Dr Showalter’s recent study evaluating precision breast intraoperative radiation therapy (PB-IORT), which uses customized CT-based treatment plans for high-dose-rate (HDR) brachytherapy. Interim …

In this episode, Dr Dante Yeh is joined by Casey Allen, MD, from the Institute of Surgery, Division of Surgical Oncology, Allegheny Health Network, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. They discuss Dr Allen’s recent study, which found that widespread adoption of the fecal immunochemical test for noninvasive colorectal cancer screening could lead to substantia…

In this episode, Dr. Jamie Coleman is joined by Carter Lebares, MD, FACS, from the Department of Surgery, University of California San Francisco. They discuss Dr. Lebares’ recent study at 16 academic general surgery training programs, in which residents indicated a perceived lack of value congruence with leadership regarding occupational well-being…

In this episode, Dr Dante Yeh is joined by Lola Fayanju, MD, MA, MPHS, FACS, from The University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA. They discuss Dr Fayanju’s recent study on imposter syndrome, an internalized sense of incompetence and not belonging. The study found that female physicians were more likely to experience imposter syndrome than male ph…

In this episode, Dr Dante Yeh is joined by Gabriel Brat, MD, FACS, MPH and Jayson Marwaha, MD, MBI, from Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA. They discuss their recent study, which compared the predictive utility of preoperative surgeon intuition and surgical risk calculators and found that, while preoperative surgeon intuition alone i…

In this episode, Dr Jamie Coleman is joined by Bradley Kushner, MD, from the Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis. They discuss Dr Kushner’s study, which found that patients who are unvaccinated against COVID-19 have worse compliance and healthcare follow-up after a kidney transplant compared with those who were preoperatively vaccina…

In this episode, Dr Jamie Coleman is joined by Clayton Brinster, MD, FACS, from Ochsner Health. They discuss his study, which demonstrates a significant increase in surgical nursing labor cost, with a resultant decrease in department of surgery financial margins. This nationwide, precarious trend is not sustainable, and fiscal recovery will require…

In this episode, Dr. Dante Yeh is joined by Tejen Shah, MD, from The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center. They discuss his study, which shows that contrary to published enhanced recovery program (ERP) literature, most study hospitals had difficulty improving process compliance, with 80% not achieving substantial improvement. ERP bundles sho…

In this episode, Dr Jamie Coleman is joined by Roi Weiser, MD, from the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, and Suzanne Klimberg, MD, PhD, MSHCT, FACS, from the Division of Surgical Oncology at the University of Texas Medical Branch. They discuss their study, which shows that fluoroscopic intraoperative neoplasm and node detection (FIND)…

In this episode, Dr Dante Yeh is joined by Sharven Taghavi, MD, MPH, MS, FACS, from the Tulane University School of Medicine. They discuss his study on blunt cerebrovascular injury (BCVI), which is a significant cause of morbidity and mortality in patients with blunt trauma. Using a Markov decision analysis, the authors found that universal screeni…

In this episode, Dr Jamie Coleman is joined by Elzerie de Jager, MBBS(Hons), PhD, from the University of Vermont and the Center for Surgery and Public Health, Department of Surgery, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School and Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health; and LD Britt MD, MPH, FACS, from the Department of Surgery, Eastern Vi…

In this episode, Dr Dante Yeh is joined by Flavio Malcher, MD, MSc, from the Department of Surgery at New York University. They discuss his study, which validates the findings of recent randomized controlled trials in a larger multicenter cohort, suggesting that permanent mesh is the ideal prosthetic to enhance ventral hernia repair even in contami…

Aaron & Liz try to find the table space to contain this week's lightweight co-op card game: Bandito! PLUS: Sam Barlow is back with Immortality and y'all gotta try this game but we can't tell you anything about it. TIMESTAMPS: 0:00 - Opening 1:50 - Intro song! 2:13 - Bandido! 3:05 - What IS Bandido? 6:30 - The lightweight nature of Bandido (for bett…

In this episode, Dr Coleman is joined by Dorothy Andriole, MD, FACS, who is a surgeon and the Senior Director of Medical Education Research at the Association of American Medical Colleges, and Jonathan Amiel, MD, who is a professor of psychiatry and Senior Associate Dean for Innovation in Health Professions Education at Columbia University. They di…

Do you know what the scariest/funniest thing about Evil Dead: The Game is? THE DRIVING! Join Liz and Aaron as they grab their Boomsticks and take a trip to the woods in Ash William's Day Out! TIMESTAMPS: 0:00 - Win a copy of Evil Dead: The Game for PC! Head to https://bit.ly/HoodieWeatherDiscord and post a spooky GIF to enter! 4:03 - Today we're ta…

In this episode, Dr. Yeh is joined by Claire Rosen, MD, from the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. They discuss her recent paper, which demonstrates that past medical history, specifically multimorbidity, influences the risk of adverse outcomes after emergency general surgery, from increased mortality to limited independence and function.…

The Co-Ops detail some of the coziest games and other media that have helped them transition to Fall. PLUS: NEW LOGO!!!! Join the Hoodie Weather discord and chat with other Cooperatives listeners here: https://bit.ly/hoodieweatherdiscord TIMESTAMPS 0:00 - Intro 1:45 - We have a new logo by Julia Maddalina! 3:00 - The vibe of cozy stuff www.howlongt…

Aaron and Liz venture out on the night of a full moon to play the latest choose-your-own-adventure horror game, The Quarry, by Supermassive Games. Will our intrepid hosts survive until dawn? Or will they lose what little hope they have left? (SPOILER: They'll survive, because this game is super fun and inviting for co-op groups!) TIMESTAMPS 0:00 - …

Aaron and Liz discovered an ideal cooperative game called (checks notes) huh, Fortnite! Jump aboard the Battle Bus to learn about how Cross-Play is changing the industry, and what accessibility features make one of the world's biggest games one of the easiest to play. TIMESTAMPS: 0;00 - Aaron's pitch for a brand new pizza app 3:00 - Riot Fest hurts…

In this episode, Dr Coleman is joined by Nestor F De la Cruz-Muñoz Jr, MD, Professor of Surgery and Section Chief of Bariatric Surgery at the University of Miami. They discuss his recent study, which demonstrates the lasting, positive impact of bariatric surgery even decades later, and confirms that bariatric surgery should not be denied to adolesc…

It's time to kick some SHELL with Liz & Aaron! Shredder's Revenge is the latest TMNT game, and it's a fantastic couch co-op experience, but is it satisfying overall? PLUS: Learning about Niblings, what a Paladin is, and a short take on Interior/Night's As Dusk Falls. TIMESTAMPS 0:00 - "What was your first memory of the Ninja Turtles?" 5:24 - Intro!…

Aaron & Liz have your next favorite game to play with the whole family: Kites - Time To Fly from Floodgate Games. ALSO: Liz has developed the Co-Operative Fidelity test! How does Kites fare? Is it time to fly, or time to BYE? Listen and find out! TIMESTAMPS 0:00 - Farm-To-Table Kites, and dragging Aaron 5:00 - What is Kites: Time To Fly? 9:22 - KIT…

In this episode, Dr. Yeh is joined by lead author Danielle C. Sutzko, MD, MS, from the University of Alabama at Birmingham, and senior author Andrea T. Obi, MD, FACS, from the University of Michigan, both vascular surgeons. They discuss their recent work on outcomes associated with direct oral anticoagulant and vitamin K antagonist use after lower …

Aaron & Liz just got back from Gen Con 2022 with plenty of HOT GOSS TO DISH on new games they played in Indianapolis! They've hand-picked a few games and experiences to tell you about so strap in and get ready for this special report from America's biggest gaming convention! TIMESTAMPS: 0:00 - Intro 1:10 - Pitching our Uno variants to Mattel 3:58 -…

Just like The Decemberists say, ARISE FROM THE BUNKERS! We are back and excited to relaunch The Co-Operatives Podcast! In this episode we'll go over what's been goin' on with us since 2020, what we've been playing, and what you can expect from the relaunch. PLUS: We're making a game. (It's good to be back, we hope you enjoy!) TIMESTAMPS: 0:00 - "Ho…

In the inaugural episode, hosts Jamie Coleman, MD, FACS, and Dante Yeh, MD, FACS, speak with Craig Goolsby, MD, MEd, FACEP, Professor and Vice Chair of Emergency Medicine at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences and Science Director at the National Center for Disaster Medicine and Public Health in Bethesda, MD about his group’s l…

In the words of a famous poet, "S'been a while." Liz & Aaron discuss what they've been doing to occupy their time during the pandemic and discuss the media that has helped them over the last few months. 0:00 - Opening BS 13:30 - Tak 20:05 - Natural 2020's Spreadsheet - Clubhouse Games 22:05 - Outer Wilds 26:15 - Control 29:06 - Death Stranding 31:1…

Hey gang! Aaron here. This week's episode is gonna be a bit *rough* - no editing, no intro, JUST CO-OPS UNFILTERED. We've been a bit busy with some projects, but wanted to release this so everyone could hear what we thought of GenCon 2019's biggest games! Enjoy! About The Co-Operatives Podcast --- Reach out to The Co-Operatives by tweeting to the H…

Liz and Aaron put on their spandex attire once again to tackle Marvel: Ultimate Alliance 3 - The Black Order on the Nintendo Switch! Yes! We know! They already tried the first two but this one will be different! Plus: The Co-Ops discuss the MCU Phase Four announcements quite a bit! TIMESTAMPS: 3:35 - GEN CON IS UPON US! 8:10 - Make Up Artist 3: Bla…

Aaron is solo this week, so it only made sense for him to cover solo games. Aaron plays and discusses Wingspan, Unbroken, and many more games with prominent single-player modes! Our friend Jeff Stormer tries to ease Aaron's burden, and Liz makes a very special appearance at the end. This was a fun challenge. Enjoy! TIMESTAMPS: 0:00 - The Jeff Storm…

This week's episode takes our intrepid players to Mordor and back again. Join Aaron & Liz as they embark on an unexpected journey through Middle-Earth with their pals Aragorn, Legolas, Gimli, and some made up residents of Mirkwood in Fantasy Flight's new Lord Of The Rings game. TIMESTAMPS 0:00 - DC character, or LOTR thing? 6:10 - Our relationship …

Aaron & Liz embark on a discussion about E3 2019! There's no time to lose so we'll just get into it! Watch Dogs Legion! DOOM Eternal! Cyberpunk 2077! Final Fantasy 7 Remake! Jedi Fallen Order! Nintendo! Bethesda! Microsoft! VIDEO GAMES! HYPE! MADNESS! Keywords for searching! TIMESTAMPS! 0:00 - ODE TO JOY FOR E3! 1:30 - What is E3, and how do we cel…

In the 6th and final(!) Issue of Volume 1 of The Operative Word (#TheOW), Dr Andrea LaMarre calls for optimism amongst critical health psychologists - even as we continue to put our scholarship where our politics are, and dismantle power structures. Providing a meaningful and thought-provoking bookend to our first volume, she challenges us to think…

Every try mind-melding? It's new and hip and not in rural areas yet. Only the coolest gamers mind-meld. Don't you want to be a cool kid? Liz & Aaron becomes cool-kids on this episode about The Mind. TIMESTAMPS: 0:00 - Which movie characters do we think we are? 4:30 - Today we're covering The Mind + A SONG! + How it's played. 11:15 - Bunnies + ninja…

Liz & Aaron enter lands near and far (and high and low) to discuss the current slate of GaaS games, and whether or not they could be a fit for you and your gaming friends! There's GaaS games of all shapes, sizes, and flavors now, so rather than examine each one in its own episode our intrepid hosts attempt to dissect the major players in one long e…

It's been awhile, but Liz & Aaron are back! What have they been up to? Well, it's a lot. A lot of a lot. This whole episode will go over what's been happening, where they've been, and some of the gaming experiences they've had over the past few months. TIMESTAMPS: 2:00 - Liz, being a lawyer, Legally Blonde, & Paper Chase 6:00 - Resident Evil 2, par…

In the 5th Issue of The Operative Word (#TheOW), Dr Glen Jankowski poses a challenge to the discipline of psychology, to consider the ways in which discrimination and racism continue to be perpetuated in the ways we practice and conduct research. He argues for a focus on the effects of such discrimination for the health and wellbeing of people from…

Mainly me talking about mt/ooc things with a small bit of me ic talking to any trainees. So many things are happening and I thought all of you should know.