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Inside The Shoulder
by Dr. Kenneth Cutbush
Inside the Shoulder is a podcast hosted by orthopaedic shoulder surgeon Dr. Kenneth Cutbush, exploring real stories from people across all industries. Each episode dives into life journeys, career paths, achievements, setbacks and the lessons learned along the way. Alongside these conversations, Dr. Cutbush breaks down shoulder health, injury, recovery and surgery in a clear, practical way. It’s an honest mix of human stories and medical insight designed to educate and inspire.
Episodes
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"I Thought This Man Was Totally Crazy" | Prof Des Bokor
In 1980 everyone wanted to do knees. Des Bokor asked his mentor Merv Cross whether he should too, and Merv said: you and twenty other people just like you. Do something nobody else wants to do, and the world will be your oyster. What nobody wanted was the shoulder. Colleagues called it difficult,...
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The Operation Everyone Said Would Never Work | Prof David Sonnabend
In 1981 a rotator cuff repair was regarded as an impossible operation. When David Sonnabend presented a case at the weekly meeting at Royal North Shore, senior colleagues told him not to bother. It never works. Give them some steroids and send them on their way. His patient was a little Italian...
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Prof Christian Gerber: Try To Become A Man Of Value
At sixteen, flat on his back in traction with a broken neck, Christian Gerber started collecting quotations. One was Einstein: try not to become a man of success, try to become a man of value. Fifty eight years later he says that line still governs how he works. Finding out that something doesn't...
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Ahmed Sewify: He Learned English By Singing Taylor Swift
If a surgical robot needs to know exactly where your bones are, there are currently two options. Take repeated X ray images and accept the radiation. Or drill metal pins into the bone and track markers mounted on them. Ahmed Sewify spent his PhD working on a third option. Put an ultrasound probe…
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Chris Haseman: He Didn't Touch A Drop From 21 To 36
At twenty one, Chris Haseman decided he wanted to be a fighter, and that where he was wasn't serving him. He stopped drinking. He didn't touch alcohol again until he was thirty six. He is clear that the alcohol itself probably wasn't why he did so well. It was a measure of how badly he wanted it....
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Brandon Ziegenfuss: Ten Published Papers Before He Finished His Intern Year
Most doctors finish their intern year with no publications. Brandon Ziegenfuss has ten peer reviewed papers on the shoulder, and he wrote most of them while he was still a medical student. Now a resident medical officer in Toowoomba, Brandon took a route into medicine that needed considerably…
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Violet Sattari: She Bumped Into Strangers Just To Say Sorry
Violet Sattari arrived in Malaysia from Iran at eight years old speaking Persian and not one word of English. The first word she learned was hello. The second was sorry. She was so proud of knowing it that she would go into the supermarket and deliberately bump into strangers, just so she had a...
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Terri-Lyn Bailey: "She's Not Just A Receptionist"
An overbooked public clinic. A waiting room full of people who had been on the list for months. One man at the desk, aggressive, loud, telling Terri-Lyn Bailey she was just a receptionist. A doctor who had been at the hospital a long time walked over and stood beside her. He said she was not just…
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Saulo Martelli: They Bent A Plate To Fit His Shoulder, So He Redesigned It
Saulo Martelli was 23, working in a factory outside Bologna, with no university education and no intention of getting one. Then he came off a motorbike on the way to work. He woke fifteen days later. He had broken his clavicle and avulsed the brachial plexus, the nerves torn from the spine. Two...
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Prof Peter Pivonka: He Designed Bridge Foundations, Now He Says Concrete Is Boring
Peter Pivonka's PhD was on concrete failure. Earthquake engineering, and how the foundations of large bridges give way. Then a supervisor asked him what he thought about doing biomechanics in bone. His first reaction was that it sounded strange. His second was more interesting. Concrete is…
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Mohammad Jomaa: There Was Nothing In The Literature, So He Invented It
The patient had a proximal humerus fracture and scapular fractures. He had no scapular spine. He had no deltoid. Eighty per cent of his trapezius was gone. Mohammad Jomaa searched the literature and found nothing. Not in the shoulder literature, not even in the sarcoma literature. There was no...
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Max Lavaill: "Everyone Studies The Knee Because It's Simple"
Max Lavaill says the quiet part out loud a few minutes in. Researchers gravitate to the knee and the hip because those joints are simple, a hinge with one or two degrees of freedom. The shoulder has enormous range of motion and enormous potential instability, which is exactly why so few people…
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Keigo Honoki: His Wife Learned How To Put His Shoulder Back In
Keigo Honoki dislocated his shoulder sliding into a base. It came out again. And again. More than ten times, eventually during ordinary daily activity rather than sport. His wife learned to put it back in for him. He has had two arthroscopic Bankart repairs. He never played competitive baseball...
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Tristan Shuker: He Missed The Deadline By One Day
Tristan Shuker had done the GAMSAT. He had done the application. He had been offered an interview at the University of Queensland, the thing he had worked towards for five years. You get one day to accept the offer and book the slot. That week he had gone through a breakup and was, by his own...
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Lucy Angelini: Her Mother Was Told To Hang Out The Washing
Lucy Angelini's mother developed frozen shoulder in both shoulders, one after the other. She is one of the most capable people Lucy knows, and she could not lift her arms away from her body. The official medical advice she was given was to go and hang out the washing. Watching her mother get real...
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Anand Ashok Kumar: His Father Built A Hospital From A Cow Shed
Anand Ashok Kumar's father started his medical practice in a cow shed. One room. Then a small clinic with three beds. Eventually a thirty five bed hospital, built from nothing with no help from his own family. Anand watched that happen, and it is the reason he became a surgeon. He describes the...
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Ridzwan Namazie: Four Health Systems, One Surgeon
Back in Malaysia after training in Ireland, Ridzwan Namazie found himself responsible for the spinal injury unit. It had ventilated beds. He had no intensive care experience. He spent his shifts calling ICU for help with intubated patients who were, on paper, his. He is careful about how he…
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Freek Hollman: He Failed The English Exam Five Times
Freek Hollman sat the IELTS English exam five times. Every attempt he failed a different section. Without that certificate he could not register to practise in Australia, and the fellowship he had been selected for would not happen. He passed on the fifth try, finished his PhD and his training...
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Kieran Hirpara: A Cyberpunk Novel Made Him A Surgeon
Kieran Hirpara read William Gibson's Neuromancer as a kid and became fixated on one idea in it: robotic limbs. He wanted to design them. To design them he needed to understand the hand. To understand the hand he needed to be a surgeon. Other people ended up building the robotic limbs. He ended up...
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Bart-Jan Veen: The 2am Job Interview In Board Shorts
Bart-Jan Veen was in Byron Bay when the interview for his next post came through. It was the middle of the night in Australia and the middle of the working day in the Netherlands. He sat down in board shorts and a tie while drunk surfers walked past shouting at the screen. He got the job. The…
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Roberto Pareyón: Nine Out Of Ten Don't Make The Cut
To become a specialist in Mexico you sit a national examination. Ninety per cent of candidates do not make the cut. Roberto Pareyón did. Now a shoulder surgeon in Mexico and a former Brisbane fellow, Roberto talks about the road there, including a stretch working as a civilian inside the…
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Rohit Sane: The Fifth Generation Of Surgeons In His Family
Rohit Sane is the fifth consecutive surgeon in his family. His father is a urosurgeon. His grandfather was a general surgeon. So was his great grandfather, in a small town in Maharashtra, before the family moved to Mumbai. Rohit is the first orthopaedic surgeon among them. He describes a path…
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Danial Grevsmuhl: Day Five On The Job, Alone, In The Hardest Knee Case There Is
Five days into the job, the experienced reps who were meant to fly down and support him missed their flight. So Danial Grevsmuhl stood in theatre alone for a posterior cruciate ligament reconstruction, one of the most complex procedures there is on the knee, done close to vessels and nerves where...
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Welcome: What Inside The Shoulder Is About
An introduction to the series. Inside The Shoulder is a long form interview podcast about how people find their way into medicine, hosted by Associate Professor Kenneth Cutbush, a specialist orthopaedic surgeon practising exclusively in shoulder surgery in Brisbane, Australia. Every episode is an...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Inside the Shoulder is a podcast hosted by orthopaedic shoulder surgeon Dr. Kenneth Cutbush, exploring real stories from people across all industries. Each episode dives into life journeys, career paths, achievements, setbacks and the lessons learned along the way. Alongside these conversations, Dr. Cutbush breaks down shoulder health, injury, recovery and surgery in a clear, practical way. It’s an honest mix of human stories and medical insight designed to educate and inspire.
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Dr. Kenneth Cutbush
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Inside the Shoulder is a podcast hosted by orthopaedic shoulder surgeon Dr. Kenneth Cutbush, exploring real stories from people across all industries. Each episode dives into life journeys, career paths, achievements, setbacks and the lessons learned along the way. Alongside these conversations,...
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