Miracle Worker

The ER at Seattle general hospital is famous around the country, we have the highest success rate on surgeries in the country as well. Our doctors are top of the line and we have a very strict selection process. I am a senior surgeon at Seattle General and it's my responsibility to ensure our reputation stays this way. That is a lot easier said than done though. I do about 4-10 surgeries a week and it can get exhausting. Some are shorter and take maybe only an hour, while others are much longer and take several hours. The worst surgeries are the ones that go on all night, and you can't just leave the person on the operating table, so you must stay all night until you are finished completely and everything has been checked out so the patient is safe. All that responsibility gets to you sometimes, you have someone's life in your hands and that's enough to scare people away from this profession from the get go. Some people call me a miracle worker, I have sewed back on fingers, I have removed tumors and cysts, I have relieved pain and saved lives hundreds of times. Has it been easy? No, it definitely hasn't but it's what I do. I became a surgeon because I want to be the best of the best, and surgery requires the best of the best. I'm who they call to remove someone's cancerous tumors, I'm the one they call when someone needs their heart repaired after a heart attack. The work I do, is some of the most important work there is, and I am proud of it. I came from a poor family in India, now I'm fully a licensed surgeon, 10 years of education will do that for you. It's a job I cherish and also a job that demands a lot from me. It's time consuming, it's tense, it's stressful but man, is it rewarding. So do I really think I am a miracle worker? You tell me. Who else can fix the little intricate problems in your body with such precision and skill, so that you come out of the operating room alive and well. A few hundred years ago you couldn't even get a surgeon, they were so few and far between and we lacked any kind of medical knowledge to properly help or save anyone. You are lucky to be alive today because with me around you've got the highest chances of living a long healthy life. At Seattle General Hospital I am a miracle worker, and it's what gives us our reputation. When you've got a life threatening illness, you know that when you get brought into our Hospital, we are going to use every resource at our disposal to fix you up. So yes, we surgeons are miracle workers, because preserving life is a miracle in itself.