I speak with Dr. Brad Nichol, general surgeon and colleague, about his many years of surgical work in a rural hospital. He recounts the cummulative burden of sleepless nights on call, tragic cases, occasional adverse outcomes and patient loss that threatened his physical and mental health. Dr. Nichol unweighted himself at a point of crisis of the impossible expectations of his career, and by reprioritizing family, rest, diet and self-forgiveness, as a phoenix rising, he became renewed.
