What a World Series MVP taught me about practicing medicine

Summer, 1998
Three Rivers Stadium
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

It was a typical Saturday morning on call. We’d finished rounds and I’d taken the sign-out from the resident who’d worked the night before. I headed to the library, planning to do some board prep before the inevitable beeper call to the ER or ICU. I was a PGY-4 neurosurgery resident, with many previous weekends on duty to my credit. No reason to think this one would be …

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