Have you ever wondered how modern urology evolved? Who had the idea of looking inside the bladder, how TURP started or who did the first kidney surgery? In this article Mriganka Mani Sinha (MS) interviews the BAUS Museum of Urology curator Jonathan Goddard (JCG) to get to the bottom of some of these historical questions.
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