
Episode 116 - The Ilizarov Apparatus
In this episode, we will cover Gavriil Ilizarov, the Soviet surgeon who created what is now known as the Ilizarov Apparatus, which is used t...
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In this episode, we will cover Gavriil Ilizarov, the Soviet surgeon who created what is now known as the Ilizarov Apparatus, which is used t...

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In this episode, we'll cover the history of transgender medicine, with a focus on the development of the main surgical procedures in gender...

In this episode, we're going to do something a bit different. I've taken a number of shorter but very interesting topics, either that I've c...
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