A transplant surgeon gets a new heart. A psychiatrist treats debilitating anxiety with magic mushrooms. A medical student rushes to the front lines of a pandemic. On Vital Signs, we bring medicine to life, and introduce you to the people behind the scrubs, featuring the real-life doctors, patients, nurses, researchers and staff from NYU Langone Health.
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A transplant surgeon gets a new heart. A psychiatrist treats debilitating anxiety with magic mushrooms. A medical student rushes to the front lines of a pandemic. On Vital Signs, we bring medicine to life, and introduce you to the people behind the scrubs, featuring the real-life doctors, patients, nurses, researchers and staff from NYU Langone Health.
You may have a picture in your head of what medical school is like, but getting there and succeeding there, isn't always a straight line. For Dr. Michael Natter, connecting the dots of his journey with diabetes and his passion for art helped him paint the portrait of the doctor he is today.
It was a smooth ride through medical school for Dr. David Jevotovsky, until one New York City morning, an Uber sideswiped him as he was riding his bike through town. Rushed to the emergency room, neurosurgeons repaired his severely injured body and brain. Hear his first-hand account of his road to recovery, supported every step of the way by his family, friends, and medical school classmates.
From sci-fi dreams to the cutting edge of prostate cancer treatment, Dr. James Wysock tells the story of his roundabout journey to becoming an oncologic urologist... and finding fulfillment in his career.
If you have chronic back pain, something's wrong...right? Maybe not. Sometimes, it might all be in your head... or at least, in the neurons of your brain. Listen in as neurosurgeon Dr. Erich Anderer explains how pain isn't that simple, and how incorporating ancient practices into modern therapies can help treat chronic back pain.
At 13 weeks, Dana Salmonese joyfully announced to everyone that she was pregnant with twins. Just a few weeks later, she was in the operating room, having emergency surgery to save their lives. The goal of any pregnancy is to be routine. But when it's not, fetal surgeons like NYU Langone Health's Dr. Martin Chavez are there to help the smallest of patients find their way.
Julianne was having the typical college experience - going to classes, hanging out with friends, and getting ready for graduate school in Hawaii. Until her life was changed forever with a diagnosis of chronic inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). Then she met NYU Langone's Dr. Jordan Axelrad, who was diagnosed with the same condition at a young age. Together, they are inspiring others to speak up about IBD.
In the face of the ongoing opioid epidemic, orthopedic surgeon Dr. Kirk Campbell finds new and innovative ways to manage his patients’ pain while minimizing the risks of addiction. Hear how his childhood devotion to sports inspired his career, how his commitment to improving patient care spurred his passion for diversity and inclusion, and how he and his colleagues are leading the charge to fight the opioid crisis.
When COVID-19 struck New York City in early 2020, NYU Langone Medical Center was transformed. So was Dr. Katherine Hochman’s job as a hospitalist. Hear the way she faced challenges and created solutions for her hospital and her patients.
Dr. Abe Chachoua is a cancer doctor. Not long ago, he became a cancer patient. Hear how a physician who loves to make people laugh found meaning through his darkest days of treatment.
Dr. Ann Marie Schmidt devoted decades of her life to research that could change the lives of people living with diabetes. Then, in one night, it was all destroyed. Hear how - despite this devastating loss - she and her team found their way back.
Since she left South Africa 25 years ago, Nurse Sherril Card-Gordon's life has changed, and changed again. Hear what it was like to lose her husband to an aggressive cancer - and then, to find meaning in that loss by giving other families the hope she never had.
Dr. Joel Salinas grew up knowing he wasn't like other kids. During medical school, he finally figured out why. Hear how the unique way he perceives the world impacts his life and his work as a neurologist.
Whether it’s caring for patients, designing new surgeries or embracing new technology, medicine will never be the same in the wake of the COVID19 pandemic. In part 2 of Follow Up Visit, we speak with Dr. Eduardo Rodriguez, Dr. Sean McMenomey and Dr. Gabby Mayer about the changes they’re dealing with and the changes they’re choosing.
The COVID19 pandemic has changed healthcare in ways we never could have expected. In this Season 1 bonus episode, we catch up with Dr. Robert Montgomery, Dr. Deborah Axelrod, and Dr. Stephen Ross about how their professional and personal lives have changed in this new era of medicine.
Psychedelic drugs could be a path to a cure for severe anxiety in cancer patients. Dr. Stephen Ross’s research into magic mushrooms and other drugs offers people new hope.
Hearing loss is common. Physicians like Dr. Sean McMenomey are not. He shares his unlikely story from truck driver to surgeon, and the joy of restoring hearing using cutting edge technology.
Dr. Deborah Axelrod spent her career treating women for breast cancer. Then, she found a lump in her own breast. Hear how this experience did - and didn’t - change her as a physician.
What do you see when you look in the mirror? Imagine if it all changed - in a matter of seconds. Plastic surgeon Dr. Eduardo Rodriguez performs highly complex face transplant procedures on patients who are willing to risk it all - for a new face.
A transplant surgeon gets a new heart. A psychiatrist treats debilitating anxiety with magic mushrooms. A medical student rushes to the front lines of a pandemic. On Vital Signs, we bring medicine to life, and introduce you to the people behind the scrubs, featuring the real-life doctors, patients, nurses, researchers and staff from NYU Langone Health.
