Time Zones, Jet Lag, and Surgical Focus: The Hidden Costs of Global Medicine
I once flew ten hours across three time zones, landed just after midnight, napped for an hour in a quiet call room, and scrubbed into a liver transplant before sunrise. The patient was prepped. The team was waiting. The donor organ had a narrow window before it would no longer be viable. That kind of […]
Mechanical Hearts and Broken Systems: When Tech Can’t Replace Trust
I’ve stood in the operating room while a mechanical heart pumped life through a patient’s body. It’s a miracle, really how far we’ve come. We can bypass nature with titanium valves, regulate arrhythmias with pacemakers, and 3D-print parts of a human face. Technology, in many ways, is astonishing. But as much as I admire these […]