Dr O performs an awake labiaplasty and hood reduction under local anesthesia, also excising a recurring small bump on the patient’s left outer labia previously biopsied as benign excess sebum and likely an ingrown hair/epidermal inclusion or sebaceous cyst. They discuss the tradeoff between removing the bump and leaving a scar, then proceed with numbing injections, pinch tests, tissue removal, cautery, and stitching, noting the left side tends to be more sensitive and explaining how lidocaine...

This morning’s labiaplasty patient had the most beautiful monologue about body positivity that I literally clapped mid-case.

Midwife Life: Today’s labiaplasty patient is a post-partum nurse and her mom is a midwife: they have delivered and cared for dozens of babies and moms together as a team. How beautiful!

In today’s episode we talked about the inevitability of suffering in life and how the arts and ballet give us an excuse for joy.

The highlight of this episode was the duet around 45 mins in so just fast forward to that otherwise we talked about Russian literature and swore a little bit.

Today we discussed the joys of pranking people despite me never having punk’d anyone in my entire life.

I had a special guest on the podcast (and OR table) today, a dear friend and physician. She talked about her go to karaoke song and that one time she diagnosed her own appendicitis in the ER. In summary, she’s a bada$$.

Today’s episode hit close to home for me. We talked about how two people can have different truths and that neither of them are wrong. We talked about love and loss; of letting go; and of the higher vibrations of forgiveness when compared to seeking justice. And ultimately we shared that to love someone may be as simple as just wanting the very best for them. 🥲❤️

In this episode of the Labiaplasty dialogues we discussed pickup lines and zodiac signs. I also put my childhood voice lessons to use and sang a few bars from my favorite Disney movie, Dumbo 🥲

In this episode, I promised to try stirrups naked and take a (censored) pic for instagram. We discussed other topics for sure, but I’m fixated on that one.