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I am Deputy Editor for Residents at CORR. The fruits of 28 years of post-nursery school education are described here. Along with Christian Veillette , I help run this [site ]. My other (professional) interests are medical student education and medical economics . In my spare time, I practice orthopedic surgery.

Words I try to live by, with variable success:

• "'Ladies and Gentlemen. I stand before you now because I never stopped dawdling like an eight-year-old on a spring morning on his way to school. Anything can make me stop and look and wonder, and sometimes learn. I am a very happy man. Thank you.'--The Speech of Felix Hoenikker accepting the Nobel Prize, in its entirety.
• "What we hope ever to do with ease we must learn first to do with diligence." - Samuel Johnson
• "The man whose life is spent in performing a few simple operations becomes as stupid and ignorant as it is possible for a human creature to become." --Adam Smith
• "You are not obliged to complete the work; but you are not absolved to abandon it either"-Avot
• "In a place where there are no men, strive to be a man." - Hillel the Wise

Things I try to recall when my papers get rejected:

• "All significant truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident." -Arthur Schopenhauer
• "If you explain something to an orthopedic surgeon and he doesn't understand, he thinks YOU are an idiot" -Joe Lane
• "Being one year head of the crowd is a sure fire way to make money; being ten years ahead is a sure fire way to lose money; and being twenty years ahead is a sure fire way to get crucified" --anon.
• "E pur si muove" --Galileo.
• "I am Defeated all the time; yet to Victory I am born" --Emerson.

You (and the spammers) can reach me by email at ortho doc (one word) at-sign post dot harvard dot edu

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