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JHS Spotlight Guest: Jim Higgins

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Hand and Wrist: Bumps Part 2

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Hand and Wrist: Bumps Part 1

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Live in Boston at the ASSH Annual Meeting

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Difficult Phalanx Fractures

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Tips for Success: new attendings and new fellows

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JHS Spotlight, Summer 2026

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CMS, EDS, and ABOS

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Practice Types and Private Equity: A discussion with Kathleen McKeon

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Sustainability in Surgery and Other Pearls of Wisdom with Mark Baratz

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Chuck and Chris discuss JBJS What's New in Hand Surgery

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Arcade of Struthers and Forearm Instability

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Pronator Syndrome and JHS Spotlight Manuscripts

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Cases and Mailbag

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Practical AI in Medicine with Jason Strelzow

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Artemis II and Being the Best Resident

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Volar Plating for Distal Radius Fractures

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Interesting Travels and Listener Feedback

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JHS Spotlight, Part 2: Age and Nerves, Epitendinous Repair, and Weight bearing CT / SLIL

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JHS Spotlight, Part 1: Basal joint arthritis, telemedicine, and GLPs

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Challenges with "Simple" Procedures in Hand Surgery

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Technical considerations: Ulnar Nerve and Thumb Ulnar Collateral Ligament

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Revision Surgery for Carpal Tunnel and Cubital Tunnel Syndrome: Chris Dy on The Resident Review Podcast

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Elbow Arthroscopy Tips and Tricks

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Clinic Efficiency and a Surgical Approach for Radial Tunnel Syndrome

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Guyons Canal Decompression: Indications and Technique

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Thought Leadership in 2025

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Local Only Hand Surgery, Pearls and Challenges

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ASSH Annual Meeting in Vancouver Live Podcast

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ASSH Annual Meeting Preview with Meeting Chairs Lindley Wall and Carl Harper

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Tennis Elbow with Macy Stonner

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Pearls and Challenges: Carpal tunnel, practice efficiencies, and the ulnar wrist

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Handling Referrals Plus Tips and Tricks for Common Surgeries

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AIN Palsy and Advice for New Fellowship Grads

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Are the 'simple' diagnoses in hand surgery really that simple?

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The Carpal Bones, More Fun Than You Think

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Chuck and Chris Talk Distal Biceps Ruptures

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CMCs, OCDs, and Leadership

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Nerve Conference, B-School, and Complex CMC Arthritis

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Favorite and Not-So-Favorite Surgeries

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What's New in Hand Surgery, 2025 Part 2

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Whats New in Hand Surgery, 2025

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IFSSH Day 5, Friday March 28th, 2025

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IFSSH Day 4, Thursday March 27th, 2025

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IFSSH Day 3, Wednesday March 26, 2025

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IFSSH Day 2, Tuesday March 25 2025

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IFSSH Day 1, Monday March 24 2025

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Humerus Fracture with Radial Nerve Palsy, Part 1

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Global Hand Surgery with Guest Jim Chang

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IFSSH Preview with Guests Jeff Yao and Jeff Friedrich

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Mailbag and FPL Tendon Reconstruction

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The LRTI in 2025

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Wrist Arthroscopy with Sanj Kakar, part 2

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The Future of Hand Surgery

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AI and Medicine: A Discussion with Alpesh Patel

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Mailbag Cases and Reasons to be Thankful

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Advocacy- why it matters

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Bennett Fractures, Rolando Fractures, and Guest Lecturer Sam!

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Considerations on the Darrach Procedure

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The Business of Hand Surgery

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Ulnar Shortening Osteotomy

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Mailbag and Hand Society Preview

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The SL Ligament with Sanj Kakar

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Hand Injuries in Rock Climbing

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Advice for Graduating Fellows and Spanning Plates

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Flexor Tendon Avulsion

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The Leadership Journey with Steve Frick

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JBJS What's New in Hand Surgery, part 2

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What's New in Hand Surgery 2024, part 1

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Mission Trips and Cases

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Medical Marketing 101 with special Guest

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Ray Resections and Clinical Practice Management

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Hand Therapy for Finger Fractures with Macy

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Finger Fractures

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What can hand specialists learn from a total joint surgeon?

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Executive Presence- What does it mean and why is it important in 2024?

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Volar Approach to the Scaphoid: Technical considerations

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Listener Mailbag: CMC and UNT

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Technical Considerations in the treatment of Kienbocks

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Positive Energy, Cases, and End of Year Discussion

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The Story of Sterling Bunnell

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Medial Epicondyle Fractures- considerations in challenging outcomes

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Patient Conversations: What to say and not say

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Spaghetti Wrist- A technical episode

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Chuck and Chris Discuss Clavicle Fractures with a Trauma Surgeon

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The Hand Society, Elbow Deformity and Drake

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Chuck and Chris host Podcast Journal Club

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The post surgical care of the CMC arthritis patient: recurring guest Macy Stonner returns!

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The pearls episode: median nerve repair and volar scaphoid fixation

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Transposition pearls, hook of hamate fractures, and more!

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Distal Radius Malunion with special guest Megan Conti Mica

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Deep Dive on the PIP Joint and the Stiff Finger

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Firework Injuries and Journal Club

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Chuck and Chris discuss scaphoid nonunions

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Chuck and Chris discuss the impact of patient age on treatment

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Chuck and Chris Discuss the Importance of Medical Communities

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Live from Singapore!

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Chuck and Chris Discuss FPL Rupture after Distal Radius Volar Plating

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Unsolved Problems in Hand Surgery: JHS European based discussion on Kienbocks and CMC Instability

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Mallet Finger, made more exciting