Practical conversations with the doctors, nurses, and healthcare leaders who see where the system works, where it breaks down, and what can be done better.
Hosted by Andrei Tsygankov
Most people think seeing a surgeon means getting surgery. In Episode 5 of The Care Cartography Podcast, host Andrei Tsygankov sits down with Dr. Obi Ugwonali, a board-certified orthopedic surgeon specializing in hand, wrist, shoulder, elbow, and microvascular surgery, who says about 90% of his patients can be treated without surgery.
Dr. Ugwonali explains how a surgeon decides when to operate and when not to, why numbness you keep ignoring can lead to lasting damage, why a bone can be broken even if you can still move your hand, and why pain getting better doesn’t always mean an injury has healed.
The conversation also goes inside a shoulder arthroscopy, covers rotator cuff tears and nerve recovery, and explains why a one-hour surgery can mean up to a year of healing, and what patients can do to protect their results.
The Care Cartography is a podcast about how healthcare really works and where it doesn’t. Each episode, host Andrei Tsygankov sits down with a different healthcare professional surgeons, neurologists, nurses, administrators, and other specialists for an honest, practical conversation about what they see every day. Together, episode by episode, we map the system from every angle so patients and families can navigate it.
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