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Ron Hekier

@ronhekier

🚢. Teaching others how to think like a trauma surgeon to deal with everyday chaos, crisis, and confusion in business and in life.

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This is a great definition of the profession from Bryan Cotton Trauma Surgery is General Surgery in the bleeding, severely injured, and dying patient.

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In many geographic locations there is no alternative to having the surgeons work extended shifts to cover emergency and elective cases. At one small hospital, myself and three other general surgeons would take weekend call Friday morning - Monday morning.

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"Decisions are more important than incisions." The cognitive and emotional aspects of surgical interventions reign supreme over the technical aspects.

"Decisions are more important than incisions."

The cognitive and emotional aspects of surgical interventions reign supreme over the technical aspects.
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Warren Buffett had said that he dropped everything to read a Howard Marks memo upon its release. How would he react to Marks using an LLM to write part of his memo?

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What a great thread on leadership, one certainly applicable for fields beyond surgery. I take particular interest in item #4 and the "End Results System." More for me to learn, thank you Tom Varghese Jr. MD, MS, MBA, FACS, MAMSE 🇺🇸

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Pioneers are in a league of their own. In the surgical realm I think of those greats who thought of and performed surgical procedures and techniques which hadn't yet existed.

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I’m equally happy that we have people who build and maintain space stations and that we also have people so mesmerized by them that they persevere to develop incredible talent to take this photo.