![]() ![]() “If you can’t operate in heels, you can’t operate.” ![]() They asked her how she could stand that long in those shoes. Once, after a ten-hour double lung transplant, somebody in the OR noticed she was wearing four-inch Prada heels. ![]() She stands on a small stool when she’s operating, and I’ve seen her stand on that stool for 16 hours straight, with no breaks for water, food, the bathroom… nothing. She’s only five feet tall, but as they say in sports, she plays six foot two. I saw what I later would describe as an ordinary woman with an extraordinary skill set. ![]() In the OR, in patient consultations, on rounds and more. In that intervening time, I spent many hours as her shadow. G thought for about ten seconds and then said simply, “Why not.” Seven years later, we had a book. I walked into her office one day and said, “How’d you like to do a book with me?” G, as she’s known, had done for her patients after their surgeries. And then I began to hear more and more stories from other people about things that Dr. I would see her around the hospital, and we’d chat about baseball as we were both big fans. I attended several lecture given by a heart surgeon at Children’s named Kristine Guleserian, and each time I was impressed by the doctor’s humor and warmth, but also the intense intellectual honesty she brought to her work, and her feelings about her work. To the layman, that’s the Day Surgery Recovery Room. I’ve been a volunteer at Children’s Medical Center in Dallas for 20 years, working in the PACU, the Post Anesthesia Care Unit. ![]()
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