David Urbach's guest appearances

David Urbach

NEJM Interviews

Cold Steel: Canadian Journal of Surgery Podcast

Cecile Richards

Nicholas Bagley

Scott Burris

Wendy Parmet

David Kessler

Robert Aronowitz

Aaron Kesselheim

Mark Hall

George Church

David Hunter

Vivian Lee

George Annas

Ryan Martin

John McDonough

Sean Duffy

OwlTail

David Urbach is a bariatric surgeon and health services research at Women's College Hospital in Toronto, Ontario. We had a wide ranging discussion with him where we talked checklist, the impact of the word "cancer" on patient decision-making, wait-times in Canada in the face of COVID, and medical devices in surgery.1. David Urbach and colleagues on "Introduction of Surgical Safety Checklists in Ontario, Canada": https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMsa13082612. Is WHO’s surgical safety checklist being hyped? Commentary from David Urbach and Justin Dimick in BJS. https://www.bmj.com/content/366/bmj.l47003. Impact of the word "cancer" in thyroid nodules paper: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamaoncology/article-abstract/27288104. wait times in Canada. Dr. Urbach's Op-ed in "The Province": https://theprovince.com/opinion/op-ed/dr-david-urbach-how-to-shorten-hospital-wait-times-in-canada5. Centralized intake system in Edmonton. Facilitated Access to Surgical Treatment (FAST) program in Edmonton: https://www.albertahealthservices.ca/findhealth/Service.aspx?id=1080550&amp;serviceAtFacilityID=11259386. David Urbach Canadian Journal of Surgery editorial, "Heroes, citizens, and the shoulders of giants": http://canjsurg.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/63-2-E118.pdf

David Urbach is a bariatric surgeon and health services research at Women's College Hospital in Toronto, Ontario. We had a wide ranging discussion with him where we talked checklist, the impact of the word "cancer" on patient decision-making, wait-times in Canada in the face of COVID, and medical devices in surgery. 1. David Urbach and colleagues on "Introduction of Surgical Safety Checklists in Ontario, Canada": <a href="https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMsa1308261" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMsa1308261</a> 2. Is WHO’s surgical safety checklist being hyped? Commentary from David Urbach and Justin Dimick in BJS. <a href="https://www.bmj.com/content/366/bmj.l4700" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.bmj.com/content/366/bmj.l4700</a> 3. Impact of the word "cancer" in thyroid nodules paper: <a href="https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamaoncology/article-abstract/2728810" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamaoncology/article-abstract/2728810</a> 4. wait times in Canada. Dr. Urbach's Op-ed in "The Province": <a href="https://theprovince.com/opinion/op-ed/dr-david-urbach-how-to-shorten-hospital-wait-times-in-canada" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://theprovince.com/opinion/op-ed/dr-david-urbach-how-to-shorten-hospital-wait-times-in-canada</a> 5. Centralized intake system in Edmonton. Facilitated Access to Surgical Treatment (FAST) program in Edmonton: <a href="https://www.albertahealthservices.ca/findhealth/Service.aspx?id=1080550&amp;serviceAtFacilityID=1125938" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.albertahealthservices.ca/findhealth/Service.aspx?id=1080550&amp;serviceAtFacilityID=1125938</a> 6. David Urbach Canadian Journal of Surgery editorial, "Heroes, citizens, and the shoulders of giants": <a href="http://canjsurg.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/63-2-E118.pdf" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://canjsurg.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/63-2-E118.pdf</a>

E17 David Urbach On Checklists, Wait Times In The Time Of COVID, And Medical Devices

Dr. David Urbach is a professor of Surgery and of Health Policy, Management, and Evaluation at the University of Toronto. Stephen Morrissey, the interviewer, is the Managing Editor of the Journal. D.R. Urbach. Pledging to Eliminate Low-Volume Surgery. N Engl J Med 2015;373:1388-90.

NEJM Interview: Dr. David Urbach on a plan to concentrate certain surgical procedures among the physicians and hospitals that perform the most of them.