A Week in the Life of a Cardiac Surgeon
It’s been a while since I’ve written anything here. Between the operating room and data pipelines, life has been… eventful. The Week That Was Last week I performed three complex pediatric cardiac repairs. One involved a 4-month-old with transposition of the great arteries — a surgery that even a decade ago would have been unthinkable for someone my age. The progress in this field is staggering. But what keeps me grounded is the data. After hours in the hospital, I find myself at my desk running analyses on surgical outcomes, looking for patterns that could help us predict complications before they happen. ...