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Reflecting on critical care
Posted on December 7th, 2007 No commentsI was just reading an article in the New Yorker about Critical Care and found myself very excited by it. In fact, I would say that the experience of having a patient who I saw one month earlier with multiple organ failure wake up, talk and walk out of the hospital may be one of the most satisfying experiences I have ever had. Knowing that you saved someone’s life . . .
In fact, the prospect of working in the ICU really excites me most about medicine . . . unfortunately the training is another year.
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Intelligence and capability are not enough . . .
Posted on December 7th, 2007 No comments. . . There must be the joy of doing something beautiful
– Dr. Venkataswamy, founder of Aravind Eye Hospital in IndiaThis is an ophthalmologist who realized the vision to apply McDonald’s model of efficiency to eye care by founding one of the most profitable eye hospitals in the world that restores vision to 1.4 million people a year. Its an amazing story from a book I am reading these days called “Fortune at the Bottom” by CK Prahalad which I highly recommend. It really debunks the idea that caring cannot also be profitable or that innovation in business models and high technology should be reserved for developed markets.