This Is Your Brain With Dr. Phil Stieg
Oct 31, 2026 · 8 min · 7 segments
What if every monitor in the operating room sat right in front of the surgeon's eyes? Welcome to Medical Minis, a new segment on This Is Your Brain. Many of you have written asking about the…
Jamie LockwoodGuest
Phil StiegHost
So this is a spinoff, as I understand it, of work that's been done with the Air Force and the pilots.
And talk to us a little bit about what the heads-up display, which I didn't appreciate, that the pilot sees within their goggles.
Yeah, there's a lot of similarities to what you do as a surgeon to what supersonic jet pilots do.
And our partner from a manufacturing and engineering standpoint is is a military company.
And they make the displays for the F-35 fighter pilot and other military applications, night vision, Navy SEALs, all of that cool stuff that you see in Hollywood, right? So there's technology behind all of it.
And what we're done, our relationship with them, is to apply that technology to the medical field.
So that was the origin story, if you would, of, you know, we had this concept of, We couldn't make it in a way that was comfortable enough or provided the quality of visualization that was required until we tapped into a space that had already done it.
So this is a spinoff, as I understand it, of work that's been done with the Air Force and the pilots.
And talk to us a little bit about what the heads-up display, which I didn't appreciate, that the pilot sees within their goggles.
Yeah, there's a lot of similarities to what you do as a surgeon to what supersonic jet pilots do.
And our partner from a manufacturing and engineering standpoint is is a military company.
And they make the displays for the F-35 fighter pilot and other military applications, night vision, Navy SEALs, all of that cool stuff that you see in Hollywood, right? So there's technology behind all of it.
And what we're done, our relationship with them, is to apply that technology to the medical field.
So that was the origin story, if you would, of, you know, we had this concept of, We couldn't make it in a way that was comfortable enough or provided the quality of visualization that was required until we tapped into a space that had already done it.
The rest of this transcript — segmented and speaker-labeled, so you land on the exact moment something was said
Search every transcript — by keyword, by phrase, or by meaning, across every show Radar indexes
Trends — what is surging across podcasts, measured against its own baseline
Alerts — when a name you follow appears in a newly indexed episode
No account is needed to search Radar.
