“Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.” - Robert Frost In retrospect, the past year has been one of pain, unce...
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Sati’s Surgery: An Exploration of a Surgeon’s Vulnerability Through Kuchipudi Dance
In Greek mythology, Chiron, the master of the healing arts, suffered an incurable wound from Hercules’s arrow. Carl Jung referenced the centaur’s fate when he developed his famous “wounded heale...
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An Open Letter to AWS Members from Communications Committee
Two years ago, a friend and mentor approached me and asked me to help manage the communications team for AWS. Like I do with most things, I approached this with gusto. I got organized, made lists, set...
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Lessons Learned from the 2018 Academical Surgical Congress
Recently I was having a discussion with one of my surgical faculty, mentor and prior AAS president Dr. Daniel Albo. During our conversation we covered topics such as defining my passion and purpose, h...
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Mentorship is a Two-Way Street
I almost cancelled. It had taken us about 4 months to set up this meeting, but it had been a long week of operating and I was tired; I just wanted to go home, read for my cases, and go to bed. I ha...