Meet Dr. Henry Hsia
June 23, 2021Meet Dr. Henry Hsia
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Dr. Henry Hsia talks about caring for patients with wounds from cancer and its treatment, and how he works with his patients to solve complex problems.
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- 00:00I'm Henry Shaw. I'm an associate professor
- 00:03in the division of Plastic Surgery
- 00:05and also the founding director of the
- 00:08Yale Return of Wound Healing Program,
- 00:10and we treat patients with difficult
- 00:12wounds for any reason, anywhere in
- 00:15the body and in any age of patient.
- 00:18And so for with the SMILE program,
- 00:20we often see patients who have wounds
- 00:23because of their cancer or because of the
- 00:25treatment they needed for their cancer.
- 00:28I like talking to people.
- 00:30I like meeting lots of.
- 00:32Different types of people,
- 00:33and that's something that I
- 00:35definitely get in my current work,
- 00:37and I like to be a problem solver.
- 00:40That is something that even though
- 00:42it can be very challenging and the
- 00:45solutions aren't always straightforward,
- 00:47I felt that that combination of
- 00:49science and talking with people with
- 00:51something that was very appealing.
- 00:53One of the things that I've noticed
- 00:55with trying to get challenging wounds
- 00:58to heal is that people who live
- 01:01alone or have no real social support.
- 01:03Can have a real hard time getting
- 01:06a wound to heal,
- 01:07so I definitely encourage patients to
- 01:10bring family members or someone who
- 01:12can act as a coach or guide to help
- 01:14reinforce the recommendations that I
- 01:16make to help get their wounds to heal.
- 01:20We have a.
- 01:22Team of Moon nurses, when clinicians,
- 01:24both on the outpatient side as
- 01:25well as in the inpatient program,
- 01:28so when a patient gets admitted
- 01:30to Smile Hospital and there is
- 01:32a concern about a wound,
- 01:33our team will be console Tidd and we will.
- 01:36The patient will be seen by our
- 01:38impatient when clinicians and will
- 01:40make sure that they are connected
- 01:42with our outpatient wound clinic and
- 01:44oftentimes the same provider who sees
- 01:46him on the inpatient will follow up
- 01:48with them in the outpatient setting and
- 01:50we found that many patients really.
- 01:53Appreciate that and have that continuity.
- 01:54I always do my best to try to help
- 01:57patients get their wounds to heal.
- 01:59I can't promise that it'll heal overnight,
- 02:01but I will work with the patient
- 02:03and stick with them as long as
- 02:05they want to stick with me.