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UNHINGED with Dr. Michael Meneghini

Dr. Michael Meneghini 4 Episodes Oct 12, 2026

UNHINGED with Dr. Michael Meneghini is a podcast about candid, behind-the-scenes conversations in healthcare, orthopedics, MedTech, business, and leadership. Hosted by Dr. Michael Meneghini, it features experienced operators speaking honestly about the challenges shaping their industries. The show aims to move beyond polished, filtered discussions and create a human setting for controlled honesty rather than chaos. New episodes are released monthly.

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UNHINGED Episode 5, How A Mayo Clinic Surgeon Built Mentors And Breakthroughs, Dr. Arlen Hanssen Oct 12, 2026 2732 Legacy gets thrown around like it’s a plaque, a building name, or a career highlight reel. We don’t buy that. Dr. Arlen Hansen, legendary Mayo Clinic hip and knee surgeon and mentor to a generation of orthopedic leaders, lays out a sharper definition: your real legacy is the people you lift up and the patients they’ll treat long after you’re gone.We talk through his unlikely early story, the disci

UNHINGED Episode 4, From Surgeon To CEO: Growing A Scalable Orthopedic Platform, Dr. David Jacofsky Sep 21, 2026 3250 A surgeon reads his father’s CT scan, spots a massive liver tumor, and has to deliver the worst possible news himself. That moment helped shape Dr. David Jackowski’s lifelong drive, but it didn’t lead where most people would expect. It eventually helped turn an orthopedic surgeon into a founder and CEO who thinks as much about incentives, systems, and outcomes as he does about the operating room.

UNHINGED Episode 3, Grit Over Circumstance | Ivan Tornos of Zimmer Biomet Aug 31, 2026 3282 A kid in Spain watches his family’s world collapse, loses his father to cancer at age five, then loses the uncle who adopted him nine months later. Years later, that same kid becomes an immigrant in rural North Carolina, cleans tanning beds to pay his way forward, builds a business, and eventually leads Zimmer Biomet, the world’s largest orthopedic company in the world. We talk with Ivan Tornos ab

UNHINGED Episode 2, Work Life Balance Is A Myth | Dr. Richard A. Berger Aug 7, 2026 4685 Same-day hip replacement used to sound like a bad idea someone would regret out loud. Then Dr. Richard Berger did it anyway and backed it up with results. Sitting with him in Chicago, we walk through the real story behind outpatient joint replacement: how an engineer’s obsession with motion became a surgeon’s obsession with systems, and why the biggest breakthroughs weren’t flashy gadgets but hard

UNHINGED Episode 1, The Silent Killer | Chris Hughes & Eric Stookey of OsteoRemedies Jul 13, 2026 3999 Infection after joint replacement is one of the few problems in orthopedics where the stakes can go from “recover and rehab” to “fight for your life” in a matter of weeks. We sit down with Chris Hughes and Eric Stookey, two longtime orthopedics operators who built OsteoRemedies by doing what most companies would not: going all-in on joint infection (PJI) and infection management while everyone els

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