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Episode 54: SIR 50th Anniversary: From piles of tubing to the Waltman loop | Guest: Dr. Arthur Waltman
"The vascular surgeons had felt like, 'The patients are going to you before they come to us and ... why don't we just take you on?' And there was sort of an interest in trying to get me to join up with them, but I told them 'I'm not trained ..." So if I had wanted, I could have ended up in the department of surgery as a nonsurgeon surgeon."—Arthur Waltman, MD, FSIR
In this episode, part of the ongoing celebration of the Society of Interventional Radiology (SIR) 50th anniversary, host Warren Krackov, MD, FSIR, speaks with one of his early mentors, interventional radiology pioneer Arthur Waltman, MD, FSIR, and his wife Carol Watson about the very days of interventional radiology at Mass General, his work with Stanley Baum, MD, FSIR, and others, how the specialty and SIR have grown over the decades, and more.
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