Single-incision Laproscopic Surgery (SILS), Sex After Hip Replacement, and Heart Disease in Women

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This segment is part of a series, Your Health Matters, where you learn from the experts themselves – from our physicians and scientists, in their words – describing how Scott and White Healthcare is helping shape the future of medicine. Scott and White Healthcare is ahead of the curve when it comes to single-incision laproscopic surgery (SILS) (00:00 – xx:xx).  Chris speaks about it with three of their specialists in colon and rectal surgery, Drs Harry T. Papaconstantinou, MD, J.Scott Thomas MD,FACS, and F. Paul Tripp Buckley, MD FACS.  They describe the surgery and its advantages compared to other procedures.

Then Chris discusses sex with Dr Diane Dahm. MD– sex after hip surgery, that is.  This is a subject she has found that patients have trouble bringing up with their doctor, and vice versa.  New limitations in the range of motions possible can cause great difficulties in the lives of patients and their partners until they learn to adjust. Dr. Dahm surveyed 254  hip and knee surgeons regarding whether they discussed return to sexual activity, timing of return, and safety of various sexual positions with patients after total hip replacement.  Eighty percent (80%) of them reported they rarely or never discuss these subjects. (xx:xx – xx:xx)

Finally Dr.Nandini Nair, MD, PhD from Scott and White Healthcare discusses with Chris the unique symptoms and causes of health disease in women.   (xx:xx – xx:xx).

More about our guests

Dr. Harry T. Papaconstantinou, MD, is Scott and White’s Chief, Section of Colon and Rectal Surgery.  He also is Assistant Professor of Surgery at Texas A&M Health Science Center College of Medicine.  He earned an MD at the Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX in 1995 and did specialty training in general and colon and rectal surgery at University of Minnesota, Minneapolis and the University of Cincinnati.  He was appointed to Scott and White in 2006.  His emphases in patient care are Colon and rectal cancer, laparoscopic colon resection, ulcerative colitis, Crohn’s disease, and anorectal disease.

Dr. J.Scott Thomas MD,FACS  is an Assistant Professor of Surgery at Texas A&M Health Science Center College of Medicine.  He earned his MD in 1998 at Texas A&M Health Science Center College of Medicine, College Station, TX.; and did specialty training in Colon and Rectal Surgery at Baylor University Medical Center, Dallas, TX, and  at Scott & White Memorial Hospital, and Texas A&M Health Science Center College of Medicine, Temple, TX  1998-2006.  His areas of emphasis in patient care are colon and rectal cancer, general surgery, anorectal diseases, inflammatory bowel disease, colonoscopies,and laparoscopic colon resection.

Dr. F. Paul Tripp Buckley MD, is Assistant Professor of Surgery at Texas A&M Health Science Center College of Medicine.  He earned his MA at Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans in 1999 and did specialty training in General Surgery at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston.  He was appointed to Scott and White in 2008. His areas of patient care emphasis are minimally invasive/laparoscopic surgery, breast disease, and gastroesophageal reflux disease.

Dr Diane L. Dahm. MD , practices at the Mayo Clinic.  Her  current research interests include topics related to surgical repair and reconstruction of the knee and shoulder, with a specific emphasis on sports-related injuries and rehabilitation.  She is an Assistant Professor of Orthopedics.  She earned her MD at the University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, and did specialty training in orthopedics at the Mayo Graduate School of Medicine, College of Medicine, Mayo Clinic at Rochester.

Dr.Nandini Nair, MD, PhD earned her MD at St. George’s University Medical School, Grenada, WI in 2000, and then did specialty training in cardiac transplant at Stanford University in 2007-2008. Her areas of patient care emphasis are cardiac transplant, cardiomyopathy, and PAD.

About Christopher Springmann

Christopher Springmann is Executive Producer and Senior Correspondent of Life, Love and Health, the award-winning health and wellness program that reaches millions daily on multiple news, talk and sports channels including Sirius XM, CNN, FOX, NPR affiliates, American Forces Network, and HealthRadio.net.

Life, Love and Health is also Mr. Springmann’s latest endeavor in a journey of “creative convergence” that started as a photographer for Time, Fortune, National Geographic and Smithsonian magazines. He moved into writing leadership profiles for Chief Executive and California CEO magazines, which in turn provided the inspiration for creating Life, Love and Health: to fulfill the unmet need of telling America’s health story. Mr. Springmann meets this need in entertaining and emotionally engaging ways, with the authentic voices of real people, including a diverse group of doctors and nurses, patients and their families, plus researchers and innovators in the health-and-wellness field. He relies on the credibility and persuasiveness of people’s passionate storytelling to get the point across. People identify with the experiences of others and are encouraged to take positive, attainable actions to improve their personal and family health.

Christopher is also the Host of Life, Love and Health on WomensRadio. Life, Love and Health seeks to ultimately make a difference in people’s lives by encouraging individuals to take positive, attainable actions to improve their personal and family health.