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I really can’t resist doing a nice a surgical or anatomical sequence. It’s my favorite thing to illustrate for so many reasons. So I had a lot of fun doing this challenging sequence of images describing a method for creating “neobladders” out of small intestine, post cystectomy. Honestly, in years of working and teaching in Human Anatomy, I never once gave a thought to what happens after cystectomy. Neobladders, who knew?
Read MoreSay for a moment that you have an old sail boat. There’s some heavy weather coming and your boat needs some major structural repairs. So you take it to the boat yard, haul it out and they fix it. But here’s the catch: they do the major structural repairs with what amounts to binder twine and say good luck, and, by the way, you can’t actually sail it for about six months until we know the binder twine worked. “What the heck?!” you naturally say. They just shrug and respond “We’ve always done it this way”. This is a lot like sternotomies.
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