Did you know that we perform more than 100,000 surgeries every year? This episode explores how we prepare patients for surgeries, how we support their recoveries, and everything that happens in between to help them have positive experiences.

Join host Dr. Victoria Lee for a fascinating conversation with Dr. Dave Konkin and Dr. Feisal Mohamedali, our regional medical directors and department heads for Surgery and Anesthesiology, respectively.

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Dr. Dave Konkin is Fraser Healths regional medical director and department head for Surgery. His expertise lies in performing various major abdominal operations, including gastrointestinal, colorectal, gallbladder, trauma and hernia surgeries.

Dr. Feisal Mohamedali is Fraser Healths regional medical director and department head for Anesthesiology. His team specializes in caring for seriously injured patients resulting from car accidents, gunshots and stabbings.

Every episode, Dr. Victoria Lee, president and CEO of Fraser Health, take listeners to the heart of health care, where passion, dedication and innovation drive individual, community and planetary health.

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This episode of The Heart of It was recorded on the traditional, ancestral and unceded shared territories of the xmkym (Musqueam), Skwxw7mesh (Squamish) and slilwta (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations, and home to the Vancouver Sea to Sky Mtis Association.

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How we help 100000 surgical patients have positive experiences - Fraser Health Authority