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My Fellow Americans
Why the next president should come from the OR.
O
ur next president could be a surgeon. Republican candidate
Ben Carson, MD, was the director of pediatric neurosurgery
at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, while Kentucky
Sen. Rand Paul (R), MD, is an ophthalmic surgeon.
I'm the first to admit that I don't know a lot about politics. But if the
qualifications for running for President of the United States include
having loads of money and the confidence that your ideas will work
— make that, the absolute conviction that your ideas are the only logi-
cal, possible course of action — then it actually seems like it would
be a pretty good fit for a surgeon. The president serves as the head of
state, chief executive and commander-in-chief. It must take a pretty
sturdy ego to fill those shoes. Do we know anyone with one of those?
B E H I N D C L O S E D D O O R S
Paula Watkins, RN, CNOR
