Sarah Temkin, MD is a first-time filmmaker, director and producer. She was trained as a gynecologic oncologist and spent over 2 decades providing surgical and medical care for women with cancer of the female genital tract. She held leadership positions in academic medicine, served on multiple national committees and is widely published in the medical literature. She has contributed throughout her career to conversations about equity in healthcare, including gender equity within the physician workforce. She was inspired to make the award-winning short documentary film 1001cuts, informed by her lived experience, after leaving clinical practice in 2020.
In this episode, Dr. Temkin
- Shares her reasons for leaving clinical medicine and making the film 1000cuts
- Explains how working with instruments that weren't designed for them became apparent as one of the many "cuts" women surgeons face during the course of their careers
- Emphasizes that having diversity of people, thought and practice in the OR makes things better for everyone, including our patients
- Discusses how a lot of progress has been made regarding making intrumentation in the OR more inclusive but that we still have work to do
You can reach Dr. Temkin at: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarah-temkin-214a76309/
Learn more about Dr. Temkin's film : https://www.1001cuts.org/
Watch the trailer for the film 1001cuts: https://www.videoproject.org/1001-cuts.html or alternatively you could just share the film website which has links to accessing the film through the film.
Webinar on stapler issues: https://www.societyofsurgicalergonomics.org/ and scroll down to the section Surgical Stapler Design and Usability
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