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The Scalpel's Edge
The Scalpel's Edge is a podcast hosted by Dr. Tim Sayed, a leading plastic surgeon and physician innovator, dedicated to exploring the forefront of excellence and wellness. The show delves into cutting-edge medical technologies, industry controversies, and innovative approaches to healthcare and personal growth. With insightful discussions featuring top leaders and innovators from healthcare and beyond, the podcast aims to optimize performance, enhance wellness, and deepen self-understanding. Listeners can follow the podcast on platforms like Apple and Spotify to join this journey into groundbreaking advancements and out-of-the-box thinking.
The Scalpel's Edge
Latest Episodes
Ep. 32 - Breast Implant Illness and Explant Surgery: One Patient's Journey Through Symptoms, Revisions, and Recovery
Dr. Tim Sayed speaks with Rachel Blogg, a licensed psychotherapist and athlete who spent roughly three and a half years navigating breast augmentation, multiple revisions, capsular contracture, implant malposition, and eventually explant surger...
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Ep. 31 - Breast Implant Removal and the Flat Chest Decision: What Explant Surgery Really Looks Like
Dr. Tim Sayed opens with a published personal account from a 56-year-old runner and author who had saline implants placed in the early 2000s and chose, two decades later, to have them removed and stay flat. The story moves through familiar terr...
Ep. 30 - Oral GLP 1 Is Here - What It Means for Weight Loss
Dr. Tim Sayed takes a closer look at the latest shift in medically supervised weight loss with the FDA approval of an oral GLP-1 medication. After years of injections dominating the space, a once daily pill introduces a new layer of accessibili...
Ep. 29 - What a New Oral GLP-1 Study Means for Type 2 Diabetes and Weight Loss
Dr. Tim Sayed takes a thoughtful look at newly published data from the Achieve 3 trial, a 52-week head-to-head study comparing Eli Lilly’s investigational oral GLP-1, orforglipron, to oral semaglutide in adults with type 2 diabetes not adequate...
Ep. 28 - GLP-1 Weight Loss Is Changing Fast. Here’s What Patients and Doctors Need to Know
On The Scalpel’s Edge, Dr. Tim Sayed takes a clear-eyed look at where GLP-1 weight loss medications are headed and why the landscape feels so unsettled right now.From the FDA’s latest move against compounded GLP-1 drugs to the r...