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Welcome to Patient Power with Andrew Schorr, a 30-minute medical podcast that represents the patient's point of view and connects you with respected UC San Diego Medical Center experts, inspiring patients, survivors and family members.
This series of informative medical podcasts introduces you to patients like you who have empowered themselves with medical knowledge coupled with a strong partnership with a UCSD physician. Through these podcasts, we hope you will feel inspired, informed, and -- most of all --empowered.
Check out our Program Library
- Virtually Scarless Surgery with Mark Talamini, MD, FACS
UCSD Medical Center has helped lead the way in virtually scarless abdominal surgery, performing gallbladder and appendix removals through the body's natural orifices. In this program, patient Linda Qau talks about her experience with this technique to remove her gallbladder.
- Pioneering New Treatments for Heart Arrhythmias with Gregory Feld, MD
Cardiac arrhythmias are common, but can be life threatening for some patients. Learn more about how UCSD medical experts are optimizing techniques and developing new energy sources for catheter ablation of atrial fibrillation.
- Understanding Esophageal Motility Disorders with Santiago Horgan, MD
Achalasia, one of several types of esophageal conditions, is a rare disease of the muscle of the esophagus. Learn how laparoscopic surgery is improving the function of the lower esophageal sphincter (LES).
- Advances in Appendiceal Cancers with Andrew Lowy, MD, FACS
Appendiceal cancer is very rare – considered a one in a million diagnosis. Hear from Jennifer Ambrose, who experienced this firsthand after being diagnosed with pseudomyxoma peritoneal cancer.
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