Episode 22: Colorectal Surgery - Coffee with Dr Nishlin Naidoo

My guest on the podcast this week is Dr Nishlin Naidoo, a consultant in the Department of Surgery at Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital (CMJAH) and a Fellow in Colorectal Surgery at the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa. Dr Naidoo unpacks his adventures in medicine as an intern and community service doctor (apparently his memory only starts where medical school ends!) with encouragement to all junior doctors that you don't need to 'know it all'. Dr Naidoo then shares why he gravitated towards surgery during his junior time and the perks and pitfalls of completing training in general surgery, and then further specialising in colorectal surgery. He also shares his perspectives and experiences with much more technical issues: oncological resections, robotic surgery, and the training of surgical specialists in South Africa. I thoroughly enjoyed this interview and I'm sure you will as well! Thank you to our long-term partner of the Dr Coffee podcast - Aesthetikos Photography portrait studio. Check out their work and be sure to mention “Dr Coffee” when you make a booking with them to receive 15% off the price of your photography package. They're also on Instagram at @aesthetikos.studio If you have a suggestion of an episode topic, or know of a consultant or senior registrar in a specialty that YOU would like featured on the Dr Coffee Podcast, please get in touch. The podcast’s email address is [email protected]. We’re also on Instagram and Youtube, with the username “@DrCoffeeZA”. If you’ve got anything else on your mind, please get in touch, we’d love to hear from you. Please consider sharing this episode with fellow junior doctors and medical students in your world who you think would benefit from the content and enjoy it. It's as easy as two clicks - simply post/share the link to this episode, or tag @drcoffeeza in a post related to the content. Thank you so much for your support!