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How do you maintain work/life balance as a cardiac surgeon?

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I'm not a cardiovascular surgeon but being a physician, I know this is hard. What do you do when a patient asks to be "squeezed in" to see you when your schedule is already full? I will relate this one story. I had a young patient who just gave birth and then ended up having a heart attack. Doctors take call and take turn taking care of patients that come to the ER. The cardiovascular surgeon who was on call did not feel comfortable operating on this patient. I don't think anyone else from the group felt comfortable except one doctor. One of his colleagues ended up seeing the patient and cancelling his vacation to Hawaii to operate on her.
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