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SURGERY, like any other physical or performance art, and life itself, is more mental than physical. It doesn’t matter how talented you are. If you can’t control you mind, you really won’t be a good surgeon. The best surgeons learn to use their mind as a tool. This collection of stories is a reflection on the art of surgery and what goes on in a surgeon’s mind. How you stand, how you breathe, how you think, all of these affect performance not only in the operating room but in every aspect of life. How good are you at making decisions? What’s your attitude toward mistakes? How do you deal with complications? With uncertainty? What does karma have to do with surgery? What is karma? Are you a buddha in the OR? There is a certain zen to doing surgery well. This book, like a good meditation, is meant to make you pause and reflect, to look at the art of surgery in another way. That’s what Zen is all about. The effort of stepping back - beyond habits, beyond preconceptions, beyond what you think you know - is a means of transcending the self and, in this case, a different, if not deeper, understanding of surgery.



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How might the tragedies of war led to some of modern medicine's most miraculous discoveries, ones that have saved countless millions from a lifetime of blindness? Or a pair of eyeglasses kept safe America's democracy - and Teddy Roosevelt's life? Why it's too late now to start if you ever wanted to be a world-class baseball player or golfer? That there really is an evil eye and voodoo magic is no old wives' tale? In this collection of thought provoking essays, Dr. Saad Shaikh draws upon these curious visions to introduce us to the hidden world of our eyes, and it turns out to be a world more interesting than we might ever have imagined. From molecular biology and genetics to stem cells and nanoscience, Eyes on Ice and No Blind Mice brings us eye to eye with the events, discoveries, and individuals that continue to shape the medicine and science of the eye. 

  


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