Dr. Prosper Benhaim: Leveling Up "Eating Your Meat and Potatoes"

In this "Leveling Up" episode of the Award-Winning PRS Global Open Deep Cuts Podcast, Dr. Prosper Benhaim discusses how the movie "The Matrix" and the band Pink Floyd apply to surgery, how to become more efficient at any operation, how he melds orthopedic surgery, general surgery, and plastic surgery styles into his approach, his unique technique for treating Dupuytren's with collagenase, the effectiveness of marcaine for postop pain control, the scratch collapse test, and several technical pearls of distal radius plating, the dorsal wrist approach, zone 2 flexor tendon repairs, trigger fingers, flexor tenosynovitis, and carpal tunnel releases.  Dr. Prosper Benhaim is an Associate Professor and the Chief of Hand Surgery at UCLA in Los Angeles, California. He has written and lectured extensively on the treatment of Dupuytren's contractures of the hands. Your host, Dr. Puru Nagarkar, is a board-certified plastic and hand surgeon, and Assistant Professor of Surgery at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas. Read a recent PRS Global Open article on the topic of Dupuytren's: "Treatment Options for Dupuytren's Disease: Tips and Tricks" by Denkler, Park, and Alser: https://bit.ly/GOXDeepCutsDupuytrens #PRSGlobalOpen #DeepCutsPodcast #PlasticSurgery #LevelingUp