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If You Catch the Ball, We Win the Game. If You Drop It, We Lose

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 July 2022

Robert W. Osorio*
Affiliation:
Department of Transplant and Advanced Organ Therapies, Sutter Health, California Pacific Medical Center, San Francisco, California, USA
*
Corresponding author. Email: osorior@sutterhealth.org

Extract

As a transplant surgeon at California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco, I cannot forget those cases where I faced forks in the road and had to decide whether the right direction lay in the well-charted direction of objective metrics or immeasurable feelings of intuition. I carry those cases with me still.

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Departments and Columns
Copyright
© The Author(s), 2022. Published by Cambridge University Press

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1. Not the patient’s real name.