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Aki Puryear
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“A man's errors are his portals of discovery.” ~James Joyce                             Orthopaedics residency, for me, was a wonderful experience. The camaraderie between...

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Aki Puryear
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“Every generation thinks it has the answers, and every generation is humbled by nature” ~Phillip Lubin "I hate Generation X," one of my mentors used to say. Generation X was a term given to my generation and most of those who are in residency now. This term...

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Aki Puryear
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“Nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.” ~Oscar Wilde When I was interviewing for fellowship, one of the fellowship chairman said to me, "in conference we have resident speak, and then there is fellow speak." I was PGY-4 at the time and I really had...

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Randale Sechrest
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Wonder what Steve Case has been up to since he left AOL? Well, it seems he has set his sites on revolutionizing health care. RevolutionHealth launched a few weeks ago. I don’t know if this is “the one”, since many other techies have blunted their lances on the...

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Aki Puryear
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“Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential” ~Winston Churchill   DOR ... May-o-nnaise   Through all of my training, I always felt there was someone better. In my mind, I was not the "ideal." As for...

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Aki Puryear
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“My education was interrupted only by my schooling” ~Winston Churchill In the search for residency, many people want to know what are the best residencies. The tendency is to look at rankings in the US NEWS AND WORLD REPORT to evaluate the quality of a residency. We...

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Aki Puryear
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“I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.” ~Galileo Galilei I reread most of my posts several days after I post them. It is usually to check my thoughts and to see how pompous I sound. For the most part, I think the point I am...

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Aki Puryear
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“Build me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, and brave enough to face himself when he is afraid, one who will be proud and unbending in honest defeat, and humble and gentle in victory.” ~Douglas MacArthur   I trained prior to the...

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Aki Puryear
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“The self-confidence of the warrior is not the self-confidence of the average man. The average man seeks certainty in the eyes of the onlooker and calls that self-confidence. The warrior seeks impeccability in his own eyes and calls that humbleness. The average man is...

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