The Making of Medicus: A Neurosurgeon’s Journey: Recent Episodes

Leslie Hutchins

Follow the adventures of Dr. Leslie Hutchins, a biracial female neurosurgeon, who provides a female and minority insight into this male dominated profession.

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Dr. Hutchins makes the entire PACU laugh

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Cardiology Clearance Conversation

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Keeping control in emergency situations

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It takes a team

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My idea on what would make a great TV series…..

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I’m falling in love with my hobby farm

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Or is it?

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Isn’t the first nor the last time Dr. Hutchins is mistaken for a nurse.

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An intracranial diagnosis with an eyebrow incision approach.

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Ramblings but Wisdom of my Journey

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Interesting Case.

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"Surgeon who catches fly in OR can accomplish anything."

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Mark 2:3-11; how this passage is reflected on a patient’s miraculous recovery.

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Argument+Highway Speed=The Lady Bird

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Loss of Motors….

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Isaiah 41:13…..The miracle--- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

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Have no fear Dr. Hutchins is here!--- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

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The country sounds in Texas

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Rain + bathroom break = Neurosurgery Admission --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

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How she influenced Dr. Hutchins first question from her chairman.--- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

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When others get Snow Days, Neurosurgeons get to walk in the snow to work 😂

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A patient from Dr. Hutchins’s past showed up this past week letting her know how well she has done.--- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

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Trampoline Park Patient……--- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

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How AI misdiagnosed Dr. Hutchins with sleeping trouble on a night of neurosurgery call.

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Dr. Hutchins reflects on walking by the White House of the Confederacy Everyday when she trained in Richmond, VA.--- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

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When Dr. Hutchins ended up putting two service dogs out of a job.--- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

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Otherwise known as CJD--- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

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My .02 on the recent increase in Fentanyl overdoses in the USA.--- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

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One of Many…..--- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

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Can you guess what was Dr. Hutchins’s ringback tone back in the day?

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Dr. Hutchins reflects on her medical school rotation at MD Anderson


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Dr. Hutchins has now started accepting new patients again!

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PACU Humor

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Thank you to all who have served.


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On Election Day Dr. Hutchins reflects

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Filling up with gas as a junior resident.


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While everyone gets an extra hour of sleep…..we get an extra hour of call.


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My .02 on concussion in Bills and Bengals game.


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Mberry, Greencola & Barrier Cream


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Dr. Hutchins reflects on how Goliath most likely had a growth hormone macroadenoma, that resulted in decreased peripheral vision and was located right behind his eyeballs,


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Editorial about Miracles in Medicine


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Dr. Hutchins first OR procedure during her intern year.


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Please excuse my voice and coughing but a summary of the gun violence I have seen in neurosurgery.

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Dr. Hutchins reflects on Mother’s Day


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Call joke on Easter Sunday

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How a co-resident abused the taxi vouchers that were available to residents who had worked long hours.


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How I incorporate prayer in my day to day practice as a neurosurgeon. Happy Easter!

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Bruce Willis has made aphasia a common term to the public. But, what is it exactly?


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Commercial Break

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Dr. Hutchins reflects on how she doesn’t judge her patients and how this approach ended up in a miracle.


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How surgeons deal with loss


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Dr. Hutchins reflects on a patient in training who had a subarachnoid hemorrhage.


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Dr. Hutchins reflects on having to get an IV on a spinal cord injury patient her intern year so she could sign out and go home……


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A Neurosurgeon’s Review of the report


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Conversations while removing a brain tumor….coincidence?

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In memory of my Grandy: Lee Roy Pace 1/17/1929 to 1/26/2022


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A Message to Garcia by Elbert Hubbard is a story that was/is a motto of VCU’s neurosurgery department. I hope it inspires you to be or become a Colonel Rowan.

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As Dr. Hutchins is about to turn the big 40, she reflects on the story of herself, how she overcame an auditory processing disability to become Valedictorian of her high school.  How when she matched neurosurgery, there was only one other black African American female in training in the USA and 33 black African American males in 2008-09.  She reflects on how mom's always know best and how the field of neurosurgery needs diversity in it in order to relate better to its entire patient population.  Thanks for continuing to listen!

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Dr. Hutchins talks about the case she brought up while helping with a cardiothoracic surgery to move Deep Brain Stimulators away from the chest for the cardiothoracic surgeon as a way to show why Neurosurgery trumps Cardiothoracic Surgery.


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Dr. Hutchins reflects on Dr. Jill Taylor's Ted Talk and the difference between our Dominant and Non-Dominant Brain Hemispheres.  


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Dr. Hutchins phone bit the dust on Christmas Day..... she reflects on when her pager kept biting the dust her Junior year in residency:

I was the leading physician in the WHOLE hospital system for maximum pages.

The only people who beat me out were......"Radiology Transport Service".

Yes, I calculated, from the # of pages I got in June, it takes me ~2.5 working days to return them all, much less follow up on all of the demands from new consults to bowel meds.


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Dr. Hutchins talks about giving. Are you a Taker, Matcher or Giver?

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Dr. Hutchins talks about Holidays for Neurosurgeons.  She reflects on a Christmas Day as a Junior Resident.  To be  encouraging, she reflects on her first Miracle she ever witnessed as a neurosurgical resident.


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Dr. Hutchins reflects on Jason’s quick thinking of using a foley (urine catheter) to save a patient’s life.

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Hints from a dream helps Dr. Hutchins with a patient’s care.


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A great man and surgeon, thank you Dr. Lawerence for the inspiration you were to me.


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Thanksgiving Edition: One thing neurosurgeon’s need is large balls

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H3 Hummer….Dictations & Snorkel

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Dr. Hutchins reflects on Code Blue, DNR & DNI


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Like a script written from Grey’s Anatomy, Dr. Hutchins found herself in a middle of a natural disaster.


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Talia gives her opinion about having a mom as a neurosurgeon…


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Brain Surgeons are humans and make mistakes…..like flying to the wrong city trying to make a Country Western Concert.


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Dr. Hutchins reflects on mental health with an emphasis on mental health in healthcare providers.


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Dr. Hutchins reflects on her away rotation at UT Memphis in 2007.


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Dr. Hutchin’s first save as a neurosurgical resident.


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Dr. Hutchins has to face her own mortality and reflects on the relationship between a mom and her children.


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The game of Sick, Not-Sick and Dying. Reflect on when Dr. Hutchins tries to save a Not-Sick patient while on call in suboptimal conditions.


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Come follow me, “Medicus” into the world of neurosurgery.


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Trailer for the Making of Medicus


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