---
title: 'Medical Device Rep Podcast: Dr. David Ruch'
type: 'episode'
url: 'https://doc.social/episodes/medical-device-rep-podcast-dr-david-ruch'
show: 'Device Nation'
show_url: 'https://doc.social/podcasts/device-nation'
published: '2021-07-08'
audio: 'https://pdcn.co/e/www.buzzsprout.com/786629/8831442-medical-device-rep-podcast-dr-david-ruch.mp3'
---

# Medical Device Rep Podcast: Dr. David Ruch

## Summary

Device Nation sits down with a surgeon you need to know, Dr. David Ruch! Chief of Division Hand and Microvascular Surgery Director, Hand and Microvascular Surgery Fellowship at Duke University, a great conversation about this exploding sub-specialty. We talk about his life, his practice, volar plating, hand transplants among others!!

Clinic Site: https://www.dukehealth.org/find-doctors-physicians/david-s-ruch-md

First Hand Transplant in NC: https://surgery.duke.edu/news/duke-hand-transplant-recipient-gains-use-new-hand

Active listening to our customers and patients can be hampered by a distraction "doorbell" called "points of connection"....How do we stay focused when the person talking across from us drops a clue about something WE are passionate about??

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