Surgery on the Joe Rogan Experience
3 fact-checked claims across 2 episodes · Apr 2018 · updated Jul 20, 2026
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- Dr. Roddy McGee (2)
- Matthew Walker (1)
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“If you have elective surgery, you should ask your surgeon how much sleep they've had in that past 24 hours. If they've had six hours of sleep or less, you have…”
Walker claims a surgeon who slept 6 hours has a 170% increased risk of causing a major surgical error like organ damage or hemorrhage, compared to a well-rested version of the same surgeon.
“We know that about 15 to 22% of those fail the meniscal repairs. You know, it's a disappointing number.”
The guest states that meniscal repair surgeries fail in about 15 to 22% of cases.
“he published a paper that showed a very high rate of failure from these procedures. And so as a result of that, it's fallen out of favor. So, but it was done v…”
The guest claims thermal capsulorrhaphy (heat-shrinking shoulder capsule tissue) had a roughly 40% failure rate in a published study, causing the procedure to fall out of favor.