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When We Lived In A Society Where We Had Large Families That Lived Together, Especially In Agricultural Societies Like My Grandfather And Father Grew Up In, The Result Is You Always Had Family Around To Take Care Of You.

Making Systems Work Is The Great Task Of My Generation Of Physicians And Scientists. But I Would Go Further And Say That Making Systems Work - Whether In Healthcare, Education, Climate Change, Making A Pathway Out Of Poverty - Is The Great Task Of Our Generation As A Whole.

People Underestimate The Importance Of Dilligence As A Virtue. No Doubt It Has Something To Do With How Supremely Mundane It Seems. It Is Defined As "the Constant And Earnest Effort To Accomplish What Is Undertaken."... Understood, However, As The Prerequisite Of Great Accomplishment, Diligence Stands As One Of The Most Difficult Challenges Facing Any Group Of People Who Take On Tasks Of Risk And Consequence. It Sets A High, Seemingly Impossible, Expectation For Performance And Human Behavior.

When I Do An Operation, It's Half A Dozen People. When It Goes Beautifully, It's Like A Symphony, With Everybody Playing Their Part.

I Chose Surgery Because I Thought That Perhaps This Would Make Me More Like The Kind Of Person I Wanted To Be.