Surgery Tournaments, Refugee Health and More: Sound Medicine Radio, January, 11 2015

Side Effects Public Media | By Sound Medicine Radio

Published January 9, 2015 at 8:42 PM EST

This week we interview a Harvard surgery professor about the (simulated) surgery tournament he runs to get medical students obsessed with honing their skills. Plus hear about prescriptions for vegetables (yes!), innovations in weight-loss surgery, and new insight into just how much your healthy lifestyle habits can help your heart

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