6: A Conversation with Colleagues

Jay Jennings, MD and Aaron Smathers, MD join the Vedalas this week to talk about their experiences together in medical school at OU and now at Norman Regional. The four physicians look back and reminisce on their days spent in lectures and anatomy lab and the professors who helped them get to where they are now. Dr. Jennings and Dr. Smathers share about their lives and specialties, giving patients and physicians tips and advice. We get to learn more about the process of medical school and what it took to get through their classes on this week’s episode, A Conversation with Colleagues!
 
Guest Bios:
Jay Jennings, MD, is a general surgeon with Norman Regional’s Oklahoma Surgical Associates clinic. Dr. Jennings attended medical school at the University of Oklahoma and completed his general surgery residency at the University of Missouri. He pursued general surgery as his field of medicine because of his desire to improve patient’s lives in a direct manner. He enjoys having the ability to not only figure out problems for patients but also fix them in a holistic approach. Dr. Jennings said his patients can expect a provider with a strong technical skill set who is fully invested in providing them the best individualized care possible.

His special interests include bowel blockages, colon cancer, diverticular disease, emergency general surgery, hernia repair, laparoscopic appendectomies, laparoscopic and open gallbladder surgery and robotic surgery.

Dr. Jennings is a sixth generation Oklahoman with strong native ties. Most of his family has dedicated their lives to serving the citizens of Oklahoma in a variety of ways. Dr. Jennings says he is honored to continue this tradition as a surgeon.

Aaron Smathers, MD, MS, is a board-certified sports medicine physician at Ortho Central. He attended medical school at the University of Oklahoma College Of Medicine and chose to pursue sports medicine because as an athlete himself, he wants to help other athletes overcome the challenges associated with competition. Dr. Smathers said his patients can expect a well-rounded sports medicine physician prepared to take care of any and all active populations. The focus will always be to work together to achieve a patient’s goals.

His special interests include non-operative orthopedic care for all ages, endurance sports performance and preparation, ultrasound guided joint and soft tissue injections, non-operative fracture care, platelet-rich plasma (PRP) injections and concussion management.

Dr. Smathers enjoys spending time with family, biking, and playing the guitar.

Links:
Jay Jennings, MD
Aaron Smathers, MD
Dr. Jennings’ Clinic, Oklahoma Surgical Associates
Dr. Smathers’ Clinic, Ortho Central
Blog – Prevent Commotio Cordis in Young Athletes

This podcast is for educational purposes only. The information in this show is not to be used as medical advice. If you are needing medical care, please consult with your physician.

Norman Regional is hiring! See all our open opportunities here: https://careers.normanregional.com/careers-home/

Transcript

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Welcome, friends.

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This is Dr’s Krishna and Veer Vedala.

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And we are the Vedala Bros.

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We are delighted to bring you
our brand new podcast, Vital Visions.

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So in this podcast, we'll be discussing
important medical topics

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that affect your community.

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We'll be looking into medical research
Health and wellness tips

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and also available health

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care resources brought to you
by the Norman Regional Health System.

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That's right.

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And in each episode, we'll also be joined
by medical professionals,

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local community leaders
and even some of our friendly neighbors

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as we talk through various issues
that are affecting our community.

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So if you want to lead healthy lives
or learn about the new healthy trends,

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we want this podcast to be your
go to resource.

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Welcome back,

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folks, to another episode of Vital Visions
with the Vedala Brothers.

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We say Norman Regional is a great place
to work and we really mean it.

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And it's because we get to work
with our close friends

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who we went to medical school together.

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And so, without further ado,
our very special guests today, Krishna

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do you want to introduce them? Yeah.

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So today we have, uh, Dr.

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Jay Jennings, uh, one of our general
surgeons, uh, and also, uh, Dr.

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Aaron Smathers, who's one of our wonderful
sports medicine doctors.

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And so glad guys,
we're glad to see you guys again

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and glad you could come on our podcast
and we're thrilled.

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So thanks for having me
today. Excited to be here.

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Happy to be here.

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Yeah, it's really nice.

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We can, you know,
I mean, this is about our old med school.

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Yeah. Yeah.

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Sometimes I try to forget
about those days, but that's okay.

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That's all right.

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If you if you share a traumatic experience
together, it creates a bond

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I hear. It really does.

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Do you guys mind
uh, sharing a little bit about yourself.

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[Dr. Jay Jennings]: Yeah, So

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I just moved back to Norman Regional
about six months ago.

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I finished my residency
training up in Columbia, Missouri.

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I was born and raised here in Oklahoma
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originally and then did my undergrad
in medical school here at O.U.

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So my wife and I knew
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five years ago,
my plan was always to come back.

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And so I'm really happy to be back around

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family and,
you know, all the people in Oklahoma

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that helped me get to where I am
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[Dr. Aaron Smathers]: Yeah, and for myself,
I mean, a long way around.

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But I grew up in Moore,
so I've been here my whole life.

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I lived in Norman
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and graduate school

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and spent a lot of time down here
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Regional and and the Norman population,
everything around here in the Metro.

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So whenever I, I went kind of
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after I had a different career
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but knew that I wanted to stay around here
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so much and decided to stay here
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you know,
help me get in and things like that

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and met all along the way in the sports
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So, you know, my family's here.

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We've had roots here, so this makes sense.

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I think we have all have
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regarding that aspect.

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you know, going to school, one place,
no matter where you go like Jay,

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going to Missouri, um, you know,
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for a lot of us
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uh, the thing is, is, uh, what was it like
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really do anything they could
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you know, it seemed just a little bit
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it was a little bit
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I'm in West OKC, but, uh, you know,
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at my daughter's game
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high and high school with
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and we reminisced
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So that's what we still have
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I run into people that I knew
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Growing up, it was like nothing there.

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When we were growing up
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I don't want to drive through it. Yeah.

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it's a 20 minute drive from one side
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looking at the ground and looking back
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but sometimes that can all be a little bit
tedious with, you know, the traffic. And.

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Um, so
guys, you know, being a general surgeon

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and sports med doctor, like what
inspired you to go into your field?

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And, uh.

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I mean, I was pretty fortunate
actually early on.

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And in high school I actually decided
I wanted to go to medical school.

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I had a family member
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a lot of time around doctors
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And just seeing how much they helped
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I knew that was something
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And then when I was in undergrad,
I got a summer job

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actually working at a community hospital
in Muskogee and got,

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you know, first assist and kind of help
get people ready for surgery.

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So that's kind of where I fell in love
with General surgery at that point

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and then really picked that early on
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and just kind of stuck with it
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and really glad I did.

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It's been really rewarding

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just, you know, even now just getting done
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and take care of people with the surgery
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That's awesome.

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And similar, You know, I think I from a
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At the time I didn't know,
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I was just naturally talented.

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I was fast. I could do a lot of athletics.

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So I played lots of sports growing up,
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you know, being taken care
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so I saw the same cardiologist
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to play sports, which is nice, yeah,
It could have limited me and I did

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okay. so, um, kind of a give back to that.

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I love sports medicine
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that are athletic, keeps me
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I also treat older individuals
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It's not just athletes,

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it's active individuals,
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That's kind of the main point for me.

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For sports medicine. Yeah,

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that's awesome,

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guys, Thanks for sharing.

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Well, you know, since we all went
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uh, uh, we were just wondering
if you could, uh, tell was, like,

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a memorable, memorable experience,
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Where to begin?

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I mean, I guess the first thing comes to
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Right off the bat, you're like,

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I guess I didn't really picture that going
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that we were going to take
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It was pretty eye opening and like,
I think just starting out there like

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was an eye opener

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for how much you're going
to have to learn right off the bat and to

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keep going through with medical school.

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since I knew I wanted to do surgery.

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And I remember spending a lot of time
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And those were good experiences
with classmates for sure. Mhm.

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classmates, you know, are mods

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that they put us in
I think was just a brilliant idea for when

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You have such a diverse population
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different ages, different backgrounds,
and then they kind of matched us up

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pretty well.

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we were pretty close with our mods
and I think that was really important.

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You know, I was the senior of the class,
actually by just a few months.

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It was also.

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Um, well, Charlie Smith, he was in there.

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And then, um, you know, we had,
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Um, Ben Nisson was in there.

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Oh, man. I wonder what

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Ben's doing now?

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Yeah, he's doing psychiatry.
Oh, wow. Yeah.

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Could never imagine.

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I never thought he would do psychiatry.

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I think it drew him in.

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in the in our class,
and then they had the oldest.

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Yeah, was Holly in your class? Yeah.

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Holly was in there. Yeah. Mm.

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Yeah. I remember.
She was one of the younger ones.

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Yeah. Yeah.

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So I thought that was kind of a neat
thing. Yeah.

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As we went through
kind of a little family that we had. So

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What mod were you in?

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I was in, I had like Shawnee and Quang

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and then I had, Jared and I lived together
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School for three years

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Oh, nice.

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So he's actually in Alabama now
doing anesthesia, so.

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Oh sweet.

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But yeah, and I had Sama as well.

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Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Husky.

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Yeah, we run with that all the time.

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Was Claire Atkinson in
one of your mods? Or? She was in my mod.

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Yeah.

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So she's now she's actually,
uh, doing allergy,

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I think, at the Oklahoma Allergy
and Asthma Clinic. Awesome

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I already sent to referrals to her.
Yeah.

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All right. Yeah.

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I mean, that was one of the things
that was so nice

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moving back is like, Hey, I know that guy.
I know that guy.

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And so it's easy to just reach out

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and call people
when you have questions or need help with something too.

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So yeah, it's really interesting.

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Like you just like
are looking at providers,

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at least in a primary care world,
like we're looking at

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places to refer to in like, like Victoria Bug.

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You guys remember her?

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Yeah, she's at Dean

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McGee so I referred a patient to her recently.

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Yeah, it's a, you notice it all the time.

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Like, my wife's due
to have our first baby in August,

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and we were looking through a list
of pediatricians and

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Andre Ruhlmann's on there.

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Oh, yeah, Andre's great.

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Yeah, that's right. Go to him. Right?
Yeah.

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It just makes choosing things like that
easier.

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So, yeah,
that's something that we're lucky to have.

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Like that,
uh, that experience and camaraderie.

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And it does make our job as primary care
physicians a lot easier

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because now we know, okay, well,
I'm familiar with this person

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and I know who he is
and I can reach out to him and yeah,

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you know, and,
and that makes it a lot more easier.

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And then also it makes it just, you know,
just having a sigh of relief, knowing,

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oh, we have you know, we know somebody
that can help us with the situation.

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And so it's it's been fantastic.

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Like, uh, when I first heard
or when I first when I first heard,

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I think they were touring me
at Ortho Central and then I saw you there.

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Yeah. I was like Aaron, no way.

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And then, and then Jay I think you came in
and saw our facility, our clinic.

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And then I was like,
No way, this is great.

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And this is, this is fantastic.

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So it's it's great just having you guys here.

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Um, is there anything you guys want
to tell your patients about, like,

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any type of medical tidbits about,
you know,

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a common illness that you guys treat?

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Yeah. Like what is the most common thing?
I guess. Yeah, I

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guess you guys,

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Uh probably the most common surgery

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that I do for sure is like gallbladder
removal.

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It's pretty much the most common thing
general surgery does,

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but we do a lot of other stuff,
hernias and stuff like that too.

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But I think the biggest thing, people
that come in with gallbladder issues

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that are getting out,
they're always worried,

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how am I going to live
without my gallbladder?

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What am I going to do now?

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But really, most of the time, it's

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not something
that you have to have to live,

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which is why we're able to take it out
as much as we do.

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And people are always concerned
they're going to have

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to make dietary changes
after they get their gallbladder out.

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But really, you don't

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you know, there's not a lot of evidence
that you really have to change your diet.

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Sometimes you notice

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you may have looser stools
or things like that for a while, but

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usually I tell people after a few months,
there's really no issues

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eating anything, so that people
are always surprised to hear that.

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I feel like.

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That's great info

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for our patients.
I get that question all the time too.

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Yeah. Yeah, Dr. Smathers? 

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You know,

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in sports medicine we see such a diverse
set of injury versus chronic things.

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But I think for a lot of people
we see a lot of ankle sprains.

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I think it's a pretty big thing
that we take care of.

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It's an initial injury that when they get
it, it's kind of devastating.

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They can't walk, their leg,
their ankle swells up like crazy,

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a lot of pain
associated with it and bruising.

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And we get them in
to make sure they have a fracture.

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If we treat it.

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If it's a fracture,

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we treat it as a fracture
and put people in a boot immobilize it.

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If we rule out a fracture,
then typically we get them walking on it

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with a brace

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and get some functional movement
going to get them

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back to what they want to do quicker.

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You know, sometimes they get

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put into a boot by an urgent care
and it kind of delays their return

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to play or activities
and things like that.

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So we have to fight stiffness.

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So that's a pretty big one
that we can take care of.

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And they don't need to see
any of our surgeons for that stuff.

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And then, you know, I see a lot of kids,

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little buckle fractures,
you know, summertime or monkey bar falls.

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They fall and hurt their wrist
and it's just a little buckle fracture.

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Their bones don't crack like adults do.

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They just bend a little bit.

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I hate it when they get hurt,

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but they're easy to take care of
because they heal well.

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So we can get them in, get them in
a splint, in the cast for just a few weeks,

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and then they're back
and they can play sports in the cast.

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You know, it's a little wrist fracture.

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As long as we pad it up,
we let people play football and baseball,

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whatever, as long as they can

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kind of tolerate it and pad the cast
so they don't hurt somebody else.

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So that's a common thing we see
is the little buckle fractures in the wrist.

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Yeah. Okay.

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Well, this next question I want to just
direct to Doctor Smathers for a second.

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You mentioned you had another career before medicine.

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Can you tell us a little bit about that.

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Yes, more than one, probably. Okay.

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You know, I mean,
I did undergrad in pre-med, zoology,

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knew I wanted to go to medical school
or be in the medical field somehow.

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But I was an athlete as well.

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So when I finished my undergrad, I looked
at grad school and exercise science.

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I stayed at the Health and Exercise
Science department at O.U.

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And I had started racing bicycles
at a young age, about age 12.

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And I

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went all the way through high

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school racing and I played football
and some things like that.

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And then I stopped for a while
to go to undergrad.

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But when I got into grad school,
I was in exercise science and physiology.

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I kind of got back into cycling
and ended up turning pro

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and racing for several years
until I got injured.

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That was one of the reasons
I went into sports medicine.

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I worked, I was a grad assistant
for six years and I was an adjunct at O.U.

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For a while.

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So I was a professor.

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Then I was in orthopedics doing research
and hip arthroscopy and things like that.

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So things just kind of fell into place

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to do that.

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So those are the many careers
really. Right?

349
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And then I eventually got to the point
that I decided

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research
wasn't exactly what I wanted to do.

351
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I really wanted to take care of people

352
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versus write
the research behind taking care of people.

353
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So I worked hard to apply to med school
and and kept reapplying till I got in.

354
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And and then I joined
you guys in your class.

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So, of course.

356
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It was
it was tough to get in, but, you know.

357
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We're glad you were there.

358
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But yeah, yeah, I don't think I
don't think I knew you were a pro athlete.

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Yeah. Yeah.
I don't think any one of us, maybe some.

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That's amazing.

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We knew, but none of us knew that.
We like that.

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I feel like that's something you would have shared a lot more of that.

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Why didn't you? I mean.

364
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People would ask, you know,
what I'd done, but, um, it just depends.

365
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You know, sometimes I'd let them know.

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But we actually were based out of Norman
for the most part.

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We had a.

368
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Core group of guys that and being here
centrally located

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in the United States, we could travel
anywhere in any of the coasts.

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So we traveled.

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I think I've been to 37 states.

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I've been out of the country
into Mexico, Dominican Republic, Canada.

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And you get to ride
and all these terrains?

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Yeah, San Francisco, New York, Philadelphia.

375
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And, you know. I bet that was nice.

376
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Lots of different places that we travel.

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And so I kind of started
traveling early on in life,

378
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and I think that opened a lot of doors
for me.

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But still,
I see people from the cycling world

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that I've met 20 years ago
and still keep in touch with.

381
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So yeah, that's a pretty cool life.

382
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You know, I didn’t get rich but

383
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amazing experiences.

384
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Yeah. Yeah. It opened a lot of doors for me.

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Wow. That was really.

386
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Yeah.

387
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Yeah.

388
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Well.

389
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This is kind of a question for Doctor
Jennings.

390
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One of the things that we most
commonly see

391
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in the primary care
perspective are hernias.

392
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Now, I know
there's a lot of different ones,

393
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but different types of hernias,
But yeah, one of the ones

394
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that we've been seeing more and more is
is umbilical or abdominal hernias.

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Would you be able to kind of just explain,
um, you know,

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what are some of the complications,
uh, if patients tend to ignore them?

397
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Mm hmm.

398
00:16:59,627 --> 00:17:03,660
So typically I tell people when you
get hernias it's and the first question

399
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everyone always has,
what did I do to get this?

400
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But it's actually something
that you're usually born with.

401
00:17:08,093 --> 00:17:10,526
So that's the first thing
I do, is reassure people

402
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that it's not really something

403
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that they did to cause
like an umbilical or inguinal hernia.

404
00:17:14,959 --> 00:17:17,892
There are other types of abdominal hernias
you can get after surgery,

405
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which is typically sometimes a cause
from the previous surgery.

406
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But the biggest thing to watch out for,
you know, usually if hernias are reducible

407
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or small,

408
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which just means you can push them
back down and below your abdominal wall,

409
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because I explain it to people,
there's skin,

410
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fat and muscle and a hernia
is a hole in the muscle layer.

411
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So if you can push things back down
below the muscle layer, usually it's fine.

412
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But what I tell them is
hernias are never going to go away.

413
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They don't ever
just spontaneously resolve.

414
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So typically they get a little bit bigger

415
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over time just with the activity in life
and and things like that.

416
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So that's the biggest thing.

417
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Whenever it if it ever does pop out
and you're not able to push it back

418
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in, that's when it becomes

419
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more of an emergency that you need to get
it checked out and get it fixed.

420
00:18:02,386 --> 00:18:03,119
Yeah, I've already

421
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sent Doctor Jennings so many hernia repairs.

422
00:18:06,852 --> 00:18:09,485
And I think I've sent quite a few,
uh, gallbladder removals

423
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over your way too so.

424
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So, um, so.

425
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Um, just going back to the whole

426
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med school thing, um, you guys again,

427
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I think we should give a shout out
to some of our old professors.

428
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And yes, I remember somebody
that you really enjoyed working with or.

429
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Well, I mean mine I guess was O'Donohue.

430
00:18:31,382 --> 00:18:33,581
Yeah. Oh, it's such.
A great teacher. Yeah.

431
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Like the amount of time
that he spent trying

432
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to teach us and investing in students
was pretty amazing.

433
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And like,

434
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I don't think I ever really had a one
on one conversation with him probably.

435
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So no chance he would remember me.

436
00:18:45,946 --> 00:18:49,446
But I know he definitely
had an impact on my life. So

437
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but I think for me it was
it was anatomy, but it was actually.

438
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Dr. Holloway Mm hmm. Yeah.

439
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So O'Donohue
was one of the other anatomists.

440
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It was the other anatomy professor
that I actually bothered quite a bit.

441
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And I really do owe a lot.

442
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You know, anatomy was a struggle
being thrown into it.

443
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And, uh, in the first few weeks, uh, but,
but I really do appreciate Dr.

444
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O'Donohue and also Dr.

445
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Holloway, um, you know, for,
for helping us all in that struggle.

446
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So for listeners that don't know, like,
it's like one of your first classes in

447
00:19:20,742 --> 00:19:24,841
med school and you're just thrown into it
and, uh, it's a hard class.

448
00:19:24,941 --> 00:19:25,841
It's a hard class.

449
00:19:25,841 --> 00:19:28,207
You know, I remember
staying up until midnight one day.

450
00:19:28,207 --> 00:19:32,307
I think down in the cadaver lab
and and just trying to go over everything

451
00:19:32,307 --> 00:19:32,940
one after another.

452
00:19:32,940 --> 00:19:34,606
And also probably pulled a, did I? 

453
00:19:34,606 --> 00:19:37,106
Yeah, I think I pulled an all nighter
once for one of the tests,

454
00:19:37,106 --> 00:19:39,506
never doing that again
and never did that again. But still.

455
00:19:39,506 --> 00:19:42,505
Yeah but no
it's it's it's a tough class, but

456
00:19:42,505 --> 00:19:46,371
you learn a lot and you know, it's it's
a rewarding experience though.

457
00:19:46,371 --> 00:19:47,138
It really is.

458
00:19:47,138 --> 00:19:48,505
So yeah it's actually crazy.

459
00:19:48,505 --> 00:19:51,037
Um, one of our TAs there was Dr.

460
00:19:51,037 --> 00:19:54,370
Catherine Klump, and Dr. Smathers and I both

461
00:19:54,370 --> 00:19:57,703
had the privilege of working with her
and our family medicine training too.

462
00:19:57,703 --> 00:19:59,436
And so she's wonderful.

463
00:19:59,436 --> 00:20:02,436
Shout out to Dr. O'Donohue and everyone.

464
00:20:02,469 --> 00:20:03,536
Absolutely. Yes.

465
00:20:03,536 --> 00:20:05,102
Smathers do you have anybody else
you want to?

466
00:20:05,102 --> 00:20:08,835
You know, I think O'Don definitely hit
all of us because he was just

467
00:20:08,902 --> 00:20:11,868
he pushed us hard,
but he also was there to take care of us

468
00:20:11,868 --> 00:20:13,701
and make sure we learned
what we needed to learn.

469
00:20:13,701 --> 00:20:15,901
That's that's what I thought was a great
you know,

470
00:20:15,901 --> 00:20:18,934
I remember
neurology was just pounded into us.

471
00:20:18,934 --> 00:20:22,767
They had a way of just making sure you
learn what you needed to learn as well.

472
00:20:22,767 --> 00:20:24,400
So that is always stuck with me.

473
00:20:24,400 --> 00:20:28,932
And and even to this day, you know, I,
I still get some neurology stuff in

474
00:20:29,032 --> 00:20:29,999
the clinic.

475
00:20:29,999 --> 00:20:31,865
Okay. I think I remember this now.

476
00:20:31,865 --> 00:20:33,532
Or I go back to it and,

477
00:20:33,532 --> 00:20:37,565
um, all the neurology professors 
were part of that as well.

478
00:20:37,631 --> 00:20:38,731
We would never forget.

479
00:20:38,731 --> 00:20:41,897
Dr. Gordon You know, the ol' G.
Time is brain.

480
00:20:42,131 --> 00:20:42,897
Yeah. Yes.

481
00:20:42,897 --> 00:20:47,463
Save the penumbra. Yeah. That's right. So

482
00:20:47,530 --> 00:20:48,596
never forget, never forget.

483
00:20:48,596 --> 00:20:51,329
That was an effective way to. To teach us.

484
00:20:51,329 --> 00:20:52,629
Yeah. Um.

485
00:20:52,629 --> 00:20:54,262
Um, you know, Dr.

486
00:20:54,262 --> 00:20:55,895
Blair was, was one of that.

487
00:20:55,895 --> 00:20:57,029
Oh, yeah, Yeah.

488
00:20:57,029 --> 00:20:59,861
I mean, he was so passionate,
I think, about teaching us.

489
00:20:59,861 --> 00:21:01,761
He really was. Yeah. Um.

490
00:21:01,761 --> 00:21:04,061
You know, to come back.
There's so many. It's so fast.

491
00:21:04,061 --> 00:21:07,960
But yeah, now it's kind of a blur
after the last decade.

492
00:21:08,127 --> 00:21:11,027
So I feel like when you're in it,
it seems like it's going so slow.

493
00:21:11,027 --> 00:21:14,793
But now, like, look back after undergrad,
it's like 13 years later.

494
00:21:14,926 --> 00:21:15,759
Yeah, I think it.

495
00:21:15,759 --> 00:21:19,525
Went by in the blink of an eye, but,
you know, so I, I think that's,

496
00:21:19,525 --> 00:21:22,525
I enjoyed a lot of it. So

497
00:21:22,692 --> 00:21:25,825
and one of my favorite lectures, I'm
not sure if you guys remember this was Dr.

498
00:21:25,825 --> 00:21:29,924
Chung, the,
uh, the author of BRS Anatomy.

499
00:21:29,924 --> 00:21:31,957
Yeah. It was, uh, somewhat inappropriate.

500
00:21:31,957 --> 00:21:35,490
And I think that's why I was very, very,
very an unforgettable lecture.

501
00:21:35,523 --> 00:21:39,356
And so but, and unfortunately,
he had passed away

502
00:21:39,456 --> 00:21:43,689
just a year or two after, um,
you know, after after that lecture.

503
00:21:43,689 --> 00:21:48,288
But, but, that was actually
a pretty unforgettable lecture. So.

504
00:21:48,355 --> 00:21:49,821
Yeah.

505
00:21:49,821 --> 00:21:53,154
Yeah, it's 20, 2013.

506
00:21:53,154 --> 00:21:55,287
When we started, right, Yeah.

507
00:21:55,287 --> 00:21:57,254
It's been ten years, a whole decade.

508
00:21:57,254 --> 00:22:00,986
So this is, this is,
this is like our, you know.

509
00:22:01,086 --> 00:22:02,953
Ten year reunion. Ten year reunion party.

510
00:22:02,953 --> 00:22:03,519
Yeah.

511
00:22:03,519 --> 00:22:06,152
If only we had more people from our class
working at.

512
00:22:06,152 --> 00:22:07,019
Norman Regional.

513
00:22:07,019 --> 00:22:08,852
We could invite them. We'll keep working on it.

514
00:22:08,852 --> 00:22:10,285
Yeah.

515
00:22:10,285 --> 00:22:11,052
Keep recruiting more

516
00:22:11,052 --> 00:22:13,118
people. Definitely, definitely.

517
00:22:13,118 --> 00:22:16,118
Um, one thing we were wondering was was

518
00:22:16,184 --> 00:22:20,484
is there anything that, uh, that you guys
can you guys expect from,

519
00:22:20,717 --> 00:22:24,550
from a primary care perspective,
what we can do to make your lives easier

520
00:22:24,783 --> 00:22:28,883
and whether it comes to general surgery
or sports medicine?

521
00:22:28,983 --> 00:22:30,582
I mean, I think one of the biggest things

522
00:22:30,582 --> 00:22:33,682
that I appreciate from you guys
is you just reach out.

523
00:22:33,682 --> 00:22:35,215
If you have a question about something, it

524
00:22:35,215 --> 00:22:37,715
it smooths things over so much
rather than if you're

525
00:22:37,715 --> 00:22:39,415
not sure about something
and ask them like,

526
00:22:39,415 --> 00:22:42,248
hey, what imaging would you want
before I send them to see in clinic?

527
00:22:42,248 --> 00:22:46,147
I think communication, which, you know,
we learned all throughout medical school

528
00:22:46,147 --> 00:22:47,080
is the biggest thing.

529
00:22:47,080 --> 00:22:51,446
And, you know, we communicate on
probably a weekly basis at least so

530
00:22:51,546 --> 00:22:54,579
and I don't I don't hesitate to reach out
and ask you guys questions

531
00:22:54,579 --> 00:22:58,879
if I have the same thing.
So that is probably the biggest thing.

532
00:22:58,979 --> 00:22:59,845
Yeah, I would agree.

533
00:22:59,845 --> 00:23:02,611
I mean, I think a warm handoff is nice.

534
00:23:02,611 --> 00:23:06,544
It and it's nice, you know, what's
coming at you know what to think about.

535
00:23:06,611 --> 00:23:09,377
But I think the patient really
it reflects on the patient

536
00:23:09,377 --> 00:23:12,377
is in the patient and goes okay
this guy actually reached out and talked

537
00:23:12,377 --> 00:23:15,376
to this provider they're sending me to
versus just sending me cold. 

538
00:23:15,476 --> 00:23:16,943
You're trying to figure out
everything is Yeah.

539
00:23:16,943 --> 00:23:19,876
You know, Dr. Vedala sent you to me
because you've got this going on.

540
00:23:19,876 --> 00:23:23,509
And I think that really helps the patient

541
00:23:23,575 --> 00:23:27,075
feel more comfortable and feel like
they're really being listened to.

542
00:23:27,108 --> 00:23:27,375
Yeah.

543
00:23:27,375 --> 00:23:30,441
Versus just being pushed into a clinic
or sent to somebody

544
00:23:30,441 --> 00:23:32,341
to figure out a problem
that can't be figured out.

545
00:23:32,341 --> 00:23:34,207
So yeah, I think that's a great point.

546
00:23:34,207 --> 00:23:37,007
Just walking into a room and saying, Hey,
already talked to Dr.

547
00:23:37,007 --> 00:23:40,273
Vedala, and they kind of gave me a little
bit of an idea about what's going on.

548
00:23:40,273 --> 00:23:43,173
And so people really open up after that
and makes

549
00:23:43,173 --> 00:23:46,305
makes it easier to get information and
kind of figure out what's really going on.

550
00:23:46,305 --> 00:23:48,039
I think from that standpoint.

551
00:23:48,039 --> 00:23:50,172
Yeah,
and we've said this time and time again,

552
00:23:50,172 --> 00:23:53,338
but I think, you know,
like a recurring theme we've seen in our

553
00:23:53,471 --> 00:23:56,471
in our episodes so far
is that communication is key

554
00:23:56,504 --> 00:23:59,370
and how Norman Regional makes that easy
for us through

555
00:23:59,370 --> 00:24:02,537
applications like Tiger Text
and everyone's so approachable.

556
00:24:02,537 --> 00:24:05,236
And so we appreciate both of you guys for,

557
00:24:05,236 --> 00:24:08,103
for being so open
and in answering our questions.

558
00:24:08,103 --> 00:24:10,336
I mean that gallbladder question
Thank you so much.

559
00:24:10,336 --> 00:24:12,302
For helping us.

560
00:24:12,369 --> 00:24:14,868
This seems huge.

561
00:24:14,868 --> 00:24:16,368
And of course Dr. Smathers.

562
00:24:16,368 --> 00:24:17,501
Thank you for all of the,

563
00:24:17,501 --> 00:24:20,501
uh, the knee injections that you always do
for all of our patients.

564
00:24:20,501 --> 00:24:22,934
Uh, it makes a huge difference.

565
00:24:22,934 --> 00:24:25,933
And that really is appreciated
because I'm not, I'm not I'm

566
00:24:25,933 --> 00:24:28,300
not inclined to do a whole lot of knee
injections personally myself.

567
00:24:28,300 --> 00:24:31,733
So, yeah, makes it easier. So

568
00:24:31,799 --> 00:24:35,432
So do you go to any games or like cover
like high school teams or anything?

569
00:24:35,432 --> 00:24:37,565
So yeah, I cover Newcastle High School.

570
00:24:37,565 --> 00:24:39,065
Their sidelines.

571
00:24:39,065 --> 00:24:41,731
If they're out of town
and Tuttle's in town, I'll cover

572
00:24:41,731 --> 00:24:43,731
Tuttle since I'm out and Tri City.

573
00:24:43,731 --> 00:24:45,297
Okay I see

574
00:24:45,297 --> 00:24:47,697
Blanchard, Tuttle, Newcastle people,

575
00:24:47,697 --> 00:24:51,197
Norman some, a little bit of southwest
side of Moore, some Mustang people.

576
00:24:51,197 --> 00:24:52,463
Chickasha.

577
00:24:52,463 --> 00:24:56,163
So I try to make sure I'm available
for those teams and it helps.

578
00:24:56,163 --> 00:25:00,762
I've been with Newcastle now
going on three years. Wow.

579
00:25:00,762 --> 00:25:03,295
And so you kind of, you know,

580
00:25:03,295 --> 00:25:05,128
they come in, bring their kids
and I said, Yeah,

581
00:25:05,128 --> 00:25:07,394
I'm done on the sidelines for football,
you know.

582
00:25:07,394 --> 00:25:09,294
So I say, Hi if you need something.

583
00:25:09,294 --> 00:25:11,127
Yeah, that's
why I've found so interesting.

584
00:25:11,127 --> 00:25:12,960
Like there's
so many people that will come to Norman,

585
00:25:12,960 --> 00:25:15,260
they're like, Happy to be here.
They're like, I'm not going to the city.

586
00:25:15,260 --> 00:25:16,793
I'm not going 20 more minutes.

587
00:25:16,793 --> 00:25:18,026
And they're like, Happy to be here.

588
00:25:18,026 --> 00:25:22,059
So I didn't realize that that was such
a thing for Norman to they catch all.

589
00:25:22,059 --> 00:25:23,259
The surrounding area.

590
00:25:23,259 --> 00:25:24,026
Yeah, yeah.

591
00:25:24,026 --> 00:25:27,158
It's pretty small town, you know, Jason
White was from Tuttle, and back

592
00:25:27,158 --> 00:25:31,025
then we thought of it as a small town, but
really now it's just part of the metro.

593
00:25:31,025 --> 00:25:33,958
Which is. Yeah, yeah. My dude

594
00:25:34,024 --> 00:25:34,657
coming back from

595
00:25:34,657 --> 00:25:38,790
Vegas and our plane back from Vegas
was the Tuttle wrestling team.

596
00:25:38,890 --> 00:25:39,890
So we sat next

597
00:25:39,890 --> 00:25:41,590
to all these kids. Recently?

598
00:25:41,590 --> 00:25:43,656
Yeah. Did they, like,
go to a championship?

599
00:25:43,656 --> 00:25:45,623
There was some type of tournament
out there. Oh, yeah.

600
00:25:45,623 --> 00:25:48,122
People were like, clapping for him
and all like, this is great.

601
00:25:48,122 --> 00:25:50,089
Yeah. With Tuttle shirts on.

602
00:25:50,089 --> 00:25:52,622
Tuttle wrestling is no joke. Really. Yeah.

603
00:25:52,622 --> 00:25:58,288
They usually win state and I think they've been,
I mean, over 15, 16, 17 years.

604
00:25:58,288 --> 00:26:01,054
They've been to state every year. Yeah,
they usually win it.

605
00:26:01,054 --> 00:26:02,054
Like 5A or 6A? 

606
00:26:02,054 --> 00:26:04,953
Uh they are 5A. 

607
00:26:04,953 --> 00:26:06,453
Those kids were so nice too, like.

608
00:26:06,453 --> 00:26:09,053=
I can never remember you know which class.

609
00:26:09,053 --> 00:26:12,019
There's, it's always moving up
Yeah yeah Tuttle is no joke

610
00:26:12,019 --> 00:26:15,519
for wrestling and they take their sports
very serious out there.

611
00:26:15,519 --> 00:26:17,885
Yeah that's their
they're big thing so you know.

612
00:26:17,885 --> 00:26:20,385
And you know, I was going to talk
on your knee injections.

613
00:26:20,385 --> 00:26:22,351
You know, that's an easy thing that we do.

614
00:26:22,351 --> 00:26:24,417
I use ultrasound to guide the injections.

615
00:26:24,417 --> 00:26:25,517
So yeah.

616
00:26:25,517 --> 00:26:27,950
I mean, that's a simple procedure
to get over to me.

617
00:26:27,950 --> 00:26:29,350
I use ultrasound.

618
00:26:29,350 --> 00:26:30,750
You know,
if people have fluid on their knee,

619
00:26:30,750 --> 00:26:34,416
I drain it off and then put a steroid in
or put gel injections

620
00:26:34,516 --> 00:26:37,016
to help them kind of keep them active.
Just the main thing.

621
00:26:37,016 --> 00:26:38,715
I try to keep them away from my surgeons.

622
00:26:38,715 --> 00:26:40,182
If I can help it. Yeah.

623
00:26:40,182 --> 00:26:41,982
Get to the point, say,
okay, nothing's helping,

624
00:26:41,982 --> 00:26:43,848
maybe
you need to talk to my surgeons, but,

625
00:26:43,848 --> 00:26:47,014
you know, they always ask like, when do
I need to get a knee replacement or hip?

626
00:26:47,014 --> 00:26:50,714
And I say, you know, it's when you're
tired of me poking you with needles.

627
00:26:50,714 --> 00:26:51,614
We've tried everything.

628
00:26:51,614 --> 00:26:52,813
You can't sleep at night.

629
00:26:52,813 --> 00:26:54,813
It's affecting your health.
You're getting unhealthy.

630
00:26:54,813 --> 00:26:57,646
That's the time to get your joint
replaced.

631
00:26:57,646 --> 00:27:00,512
Yeah, and keep your health, man.

632
00:27:00,512 --> 00:27:02,412
And Joint replacement is not an easy task.

633
00:27:02,412 --> 00:27:03,579
With the rehab, Right?

634
00:27:03,579 --> 00:27:06,345
So right before and after.

635
00:27:06,345 --> 00:27:09,078
And that's a nice thing with my partners
and my surgeons.

636
00:27:09,078 --> 00:27:10,844
They're very conservative guys.

637
00:27:10,844 --> 00:27:14,877
They'll send people to me to do
conservative therapy prior to a surgery.

638
00:27:14,944 --> 00:27:16,110
Um, just.

639
00:27:16,110 --> 00:27:19,043
It's nice having guys that are,
you know, conservative

640
00:27:19,043 --> 00:27:22,243
minded and good at surgery as well. Hmm.

641
00:27:22,309 --> 00:27:25,009
We have, uh, the very amazing Dr.

642
00:27:25,009 --> 00:27:27,542
James Bond, at Norman Regional. Yeah

643
00:27:27,542 --> 00:27:30,408
He is my ortho,
and he told me to do therapy.

644
00:27:30,408 --> 00:27:31,841
Yeah. Yeah.

645
00:27:31,841 --> 00:27:34,075
Well, I. Mm.

646
00:27:34,075 --> 00:27:37,041
I have bad knees. Oh, boy. Yeah.

647
00:27:37,041 --> 00:27:39,674
For all the listeners out there,
I have bad knees.

648
00:27:39,674 --> 00:27:43,973
I'm pretty sure I do too,
I just haven't really got myself chekced out.

649
00:27:44,040 --> 00:27:45,640
Not there yet.

650
00:27:45,640 --> 00:27:47,506
It started when I tried CrossFit.

651
00:27:47,506 --> 00:27:48,839
It's a terrible idea.

652
00:27:48,839 --> 00:27:51,705
CrossFit has kept orthopedics going.

653
00:27:51,705 --> 00:27:52,305
Yeah, that's what he said.

654
00:27:52,305 --> 00:27:55,205
He was like they keep us in business
and I'm like, okay, yeah.

655
00:27:55,205 --> 00:27:58,071
I try to tell my brother that,
but he goes to CrossFit all the time.

656
00:27:58,071 --> 00:28:02,104
Oh man.

657
00:28:02,204 --> 00:28:03,071
Well,

658
00:28:03,071 --> 00:28:06,070
you guys got anything else
you want to say to our listeners?

659
00:28:06,237 --> 00:28:08,070
I think that's pretty good.

660
00:28:08,070 --> 00:28:08,836
Okay.

661
00:28:08,836 --> 00:28:12,703
Unless there's any other questions
you got or anything else we need to cover?

662
00:28:12,803 --> 00:28:13,702
Let's see here

663
00:28:13,702 --> 00:28:15,436
You know,
we kind of kind of covered everything.

664
00:28:15,436 --> 00:28:16,635
Yeah, yeah.

665
00:28:16,635 --> 00:28:19,068
Everything that we wanted to cover. Uh,
I think that's everything.

666
00:28:19,068 --> 00:28:21,101
And we really appreciate

667
00:28:21,101 --> 00:28:21,501
you both

668
00:28:21,501 --> 00:28:24,534
taking the time out of your busy days
to come talk to us and our listeners.

669
00:28:24,534 --> 00:28:27,867
And, uh, you're both invaluable
resources for us,

670
00:28:27,867 --> 00:28:31,067
and we can't thank you enough
for helping us take care of our patients.

671
00:28:31,067 --> 00:28:32,967
And, uh, for our listeners out there,

672
00:28:32,967 --> 00:28:36,099
Dr. Jay Jennings
and Dr. Aaron Smathers guys here,

673
00:28:36,166 --> 00:28:37,066
surgery and

674
00:28:37,066 --> 00:28:40,066
sports medicine, uh, extraordinaires.

675
00:28:40,099 --> 00:28:41,565
And we love these guys here.

676
00:28:41,565 --> 00:28:46,498
And so, um, thank you for our listeners
for taking the time to tune in.

677
00:28:46,498 --> 00:28:49,364
And as always, stay classy, my friends.

678
00:28:49,364 --> 00:28:50,431
And stay out of trouble.