Surgeons talking to non-surgeons

Not always easy to do: “Surgeons, he said, ‘have very strong egos and by nature are not collaborative,’ and it requires a firm hand to get them to ‘fly in formation.’

‘What you have to do is to switch styles when you go outside of the department and deal with nonsurgeons. That is very difficult to do.’”

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