When everything slows down
There are moments when everything slows down. Movement becomes instinct. Preparation becomes effortless. This is what it feels like when performance meets mastery.
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There Is No Neutral
I used to think there were three types of leaders: those for you, those against you, and the neutral ones. I don't believe that anymore. In surgery, neutrality has a price.
Less Than Full Time, More Than a Surgeon
I worried about the money. I worried about falling behind on cases. Then my ARCP panel made a decision about my confidence before I'd been given the chance to prove them wrong.
Knocking on Doors
Fourteen-hour days, slammed doors, and a summer in small-town America that taught me more about survival than any textbook. Then a gravel drive, an older man on a porch, and six words I never forgot.
The Burden of Proof
There is a question I have spent most of my life answering. Nobody has ever asked it out loud. Instead, they ask a thousand smaller ones — and I have learnt, eventually, to hear what they really mean.