How Will You Fund This Dept, Dr. Chairwoman?
A few months ago, I ran into one of my mentors outside of the operating room. He's 93 years -old- wise and was worried about how the Department of Surgery would approach the recruitment of a new chairman.
My colleague. who was my first boss, landed on the beaches of Normandy as a young Navy corpsman, rose to the rank of Rear Admiral, was an advisor to Presidents and the Pentagon and served as the Chairman of Surgery at 3 top-ranked academic programs. He's also climbed the tallest mountain on every continent and is beginning to write his next book. He is arguably one of the icons of academic surgery. So, when he talks, I listen.
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