Dr. Paul Pin: Leveling Up “Doing What Looks Good”

In this “Leveling Up” Episode of the Award-Winning PRS Global Open Deep Cuts Podcast, Dr. Paul Pin discusses the importance of having a detailed surgical plan while minimizing thinking during the actual execution of a surgery, the necessity of being open to learning new techniques at any stage in one's career, the role of honesty in surgery, the benefits of spending time having friendly conversations with patients, the blue button vs the yellow button on the Bovie, his approach to training residents, how he is an outlier in his abdominoplasty technique, and why overreliance on numbers and measurements can be dangerous. Dr. Pin is the Chief of Plastic Surgery at Baylor University Medical Center in Dallas, Texas and is a Clinical Instructor of Plastic Surgery at UT Southwestern Medical School, as well as Clinical Assistant Professor of Surgery at Texas A&M Medical School. He has been in practice for over 30 years, and has been instrumental in the training of many plastic surgeons at UTSW over the years. 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 abdominoplasty: “Mesh Repair of Rectus Diastasis for Abdominoplasty is Safer than Suture Plication” by Sood, Janes, Shah et al: https://bit.ly/DeepCuts_Pin #PRSGlobalOpen #DeepCutsPodcast #PlasticSurgery #LevelingUp