Helpless Helper

Then, as I’m trying to figure out the logistics of Argentinian school enrollment and the presence of veterinary care in Africa, a call comes in from a debt collector telling us Jackie’s ten year fellowship is against loan deferment rules.

The Business of Surgery series covers the parts of entrepreneurship physicians are rarely taught in training: financing, building a surgery center, marketing, patient experience, hiring and firing, pricing, profitability, delegation, and protecting yourself along the way.

Once I started listening more closely I heard my faculty say things like, “As a third year resident I ran every trauma on my own without an attending in the building,” “As a second year, I did most cases while the attending watched without scrubbing in,” and “I did my first appendectomy alone with a textbook on the mayo stand.”