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“U.S. surgeons operate on the wrong body part as often as 40 times a week.”

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Marty Makary is a renowned American physician and advocate for healthcare reform. His work focuses on improving medical quality and the healthcare system. Dr. Makary is a professor of surgery at Johns Hopkins University and is the author of the book 'When Doctors Say: The Truth About the Healthcare System,' which reveals many unknown issues within the medical industry. more

“Follow your passion, we’re often told. But how do you find your passion? Let me put it another way: what is it that breaks your heart about the world? It’s there that you begin to find what moves you. If you want to find your passion, surrender to your heartbreak. Your heartbreak points towards a truer north — and it’s the difficult journey towards it that is, in the truest sense, no mere passing idyllic infatuation, but enduring, tempestuous passion.”

“It's probably your fiercest critics - not your compatriots - who have the sharpest, most resonant insights.”

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