Kenneth Ziegler, MD, FACS FSVS
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Kenneth Ziegler, MD, FACS FSVS
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Chief of Vascular Surgery, @LAGeneralMed. Associate Prof of Vasc Surg, @usc_vascular. 🐶 dad. Opinions stated are mine alone. #hapa🇯🇵/🇺🇸
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Hmmm.. looks familiar....
February 1, 2025 at 3:01 AM
The morning sky in DTLA is a sick orange gray hue.
The air? It smells of burnt wood. Sirens break the uneasy quiet.

It is raining ash.

This will not be a good day.

#losangelesfires
January 8, 2025 at 3:29 PM
December 23, 2024 at 7:45 PM
He's at the vet now.
Knee surgery. 🤞🤞🤞
He really didn't like being NPO last night 😅.
December 23, 2024 at 5:00 PM
"Hooman... i recognize. But from where?"
December 22, 2024 at 10:20 PM
Some light holiday reading...
December 20, 2024 at 10:29 PM
Ever notice how the 405 looks like the juxtarenal/infrarenal segment of an aorta?
A type B dissection, perhaps?
December 16, 2024 at 3:57 PM
We're at the Annual USC General Surgery Department Holiday Party!!!!

L to R: it's-a me Kenio, Chris Ochoa, Fred Weaver, Anand Ganapathy, Sukgu Han, Ashley Hsu, Ariela Zenilman, Laura Shin, Anastasia Plotkin.

#HappyHolidays
December 14, 2024 at 4:07 PM
This was gonna be my outfit for the department Christmas party tonight, but we got an email saying "cocktail attire" as the dress code.

Sigh.
December 13, 2024 at 9:33 PM
Much to the chagrin of @sages.org, gearing up to celebrate the Christmas season with the annual showing of...
December 13, 2024 at 7:28 PM
Currently reading "No Country for Old Men"

Not sure if it was absolutely intentional, but it seems to me like Cormac McCarthy wrote it in such a way to intentionally slow the reader down to absorb the scenes and dialogue.

Absolute page turner. Have to force myself to take breaks.
November 28, 2024 at 6:13 PM
Happy Thanksgiving!
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As we head into this Thanksgiving call weekend, my nostalgia rears up. Whether we be in Los Angeles, Nashville, New Haven, St Louis, or Berkeley - there is such a thing as a "perfect autumn day."
November 27, 2024 at 8:06 PM
4th floor, on the hall between the cath lab and Vascular clinic, exists a living relic of a different time...
November 26, 2024 at 9:26 PM
This is primarily for the residents and staff who work with my in the OR and have to put up with my music:

Yes, i am watching Twice on Amazon Music Live 😅😁 #iykyk #onespark
November 22, 2024 at 5:53 AM
Started an interesting read...

#docswhoread
November 19, 2024 at 6:53 PM
This is a manekineko(招き猫).
It is not a "Turbo Granny."

Next to it is a tanuki; you'll see one of those in the house on the show too...

#dandadan
November 18, 2024 at 10:05 PM
When the sky is very blue, old County shines.
November 18, 2024 at 2:21 AM
This technique was presented at our annual Gaspar Symposium for Vascular Surgery earlier this year by Jon Russin:

keckusc.cloud-cme.com/course/cours...
November 15, 2024 at 6:29 AM
Got captured in the wild on a weekend day off combining a couple of my hobbies: cycling around LA, visiting used bookstores, reading, being comfortable in my clothes 🙃.

IG: ziekr
November 14, 2024 at 2:10 AM
"Hey hooman, where are we? New smells here..."

I'm not sure either, buddy, but let's check it out for a bit...
#hi #wearenew
November 13, 2024 at 4:22 AM