Bonus: The Next Revolution in Surgery Is Happening Outside the OR
Bred To Lead · Dr. Jake Tayler Jacobs
Oct 23, 2026 · 1 h 06 min
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CERTIFIED DOES NOT MEAN VERIFIED TO DO THE JOB
Recorded live in front of a room of perioperative leaders, Dr. Jake Tayler Jacobs and Dr. Edna Gilliam make the case that the next professional revolution in surgery is happening outside the OR, in sterile processing. Dr. Edna, a periop leader who learned SPD for herself, explains why she took the assessment before asking her own leaders to.
IN THIS EPISODE
• How surgery came into the hospital, and why OR nurses organized in 1949 while sterile processing went 45 years without a career path
• What surfaced when 125 SPD leaders across 189…
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