Meet Dr. Dan Boffa

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• 00:00Hello, my name is Dan Boffa.
• 00:03I'm a thoracic surgeon and I am the
• 00:05chief of thoracic surgery at Yale,
• 00:08New Haven Hospital.
• 00:09I specialize in cancer of the
• 00:11esophagus and of the lung.
• 00:13I really try to break things
• 00:15down in a way that is very
• 00:17simple and understandable to me,
• 00:19which my patients generally appreciate
• 00:22because you're overwhelmed with
• 00:24so much information and things
• 00:26that are not familiar to you.
• 00:28I will be honest and I'm going to
• 00:31give you the straight answers because
• 00:33I think we together have to come
• 00:36up with some some big decisions
• 00:38that are important and I think you
• 00:41need to know what we're up against.
• 00:44We have a a broad research focus
• 00:46in our group.
• 00:47We concentrate on trying to identify
• 00:50the best treatments for cancers
• 00:52of the lung and the esophagus.
• 00:54We also try to identify patterns of
• 00:56care that lead to the most appropriate.
• 00:59Environments taking care of
• 01:01the more complicated cases,
• 01:03and we also do research to make sure
• 01:05that care is distributed fairly across
• 01:08all people in the United States,
• 01:10people have often ask me how
• 01:13we get the results that we do,
• 01:15and I've often considered myself an
• 01:17average surgeon who gets excellent results,
• 01:20and I'd much rather be that
• 01:22than the other way around,
• 01:24and the way that we do that is
• 01:27with a great team, my team.
• 01:30Spends a tremendous amount of
• 01:31time and effort and energy in
• 01:33building expertise so that they
• 01:35can take care of patients.
• 01:37And this is not a one person show.
• 01:40We do it together and every day
• 01:42our goal is to get better so
• 01:45that tomorrow we take better care
• 01:47of patients than we did today.