🎯 The Competence-Comfort Paradox: Why Your Self-Doubt Proves You're Ready
The best surgeons I know still question every decision. The dangerous ones never do. After 25 years, I finally understood: your self-doubt isn't telling you to wait. It's telling you to proceed carefully. Big difference.
🎯 Reading Between the Lines: The Cognitive Bias That Saves Careers
Last Tuesday, a young surgeon reported angrily on how he lost a ₹2.5 lakh case.
Not because his surgical
🎯 The Silent Killers in the OR: How Cognitive Biases Sabotage Surgical Excellence
Your patient's pain persists after perfect surgery. You blame them for 'non-compliance.' But what if the real problem isn't in their knee—it's in your mind? Two cognitive biases are sabotaging your surgical outcomes, and you don't even know it.
The Surgeon Who Built a ₹3.6 Crore Practice by Ignoring Everything They Taught Us
Two surgeons. Same city. Same year. Same speciality. Five years later, one begs for OT slots while the other has administrators calling him. The difference? One followed tradition. The other built a ₹3.6 crore practice by breaking every rule we were taught. Here's exactly how he did it...
The Consultation Power Game: Why Most Surgeons Lose Before They Even Begin
Every surgical consultation is a chess match. Most surgeons don't even know they're playing. The brutal truth after 25+ years: The patient who controls the consultation controls the outcome. Every question is a power move. Answer wrong, and you've already lost
🎯 The 10-Year Career Pivot: When to Stay, When to Leave, When to Build
Year 10 hit me like a sledgehammer. Same ₹3 lakh monthly that felt like ₹30 lakh five years ago. That's when I realised: The 10-year mark isn't a milestone. It's a trap. 70% stay trapped. 25% jump to another trap. Only 5% build their escape. Which one are you?
🎯 Why hospital administrators treat you like disposable labour?
Young surgeons collapse after 36-hour shifts for ₹60K while seniors leave at 4 PM for golf earning ₹15 lakhs. Same hospital. Same patients. Welcome to healthcare's dirty @#$%! system where your desperation subsidises their comfort.
🎯 How to Earn Respect as a Young Surgeonˀ
You think respect comes with your degree? You're living in a fantasy. I spent a decade trying to earn respect by being 'humble.' You know what I earned? Burnout at 35 and the realisation I'd become a well-trained beggar in scrubs.
The ₹100 Crore Lie: Why India's Best Surgeons Die Broke
A 25-year orthopaedic surgeon's confession about the conspiracy that's destroying an entire generation of medical talent
