
The Renaissance Surgeon
I have always held the notion of the Renaissance person in high esteem. Often defined as a person with many talents or areas of knowledge, the Renaissance person does not limit his or her pursuit of knowledge to one area or even to one discipline. As an adolescent, I loved novels and multi-variable calculus, chess and karate, team sports like soccer and individual sports like skiing. In college, I majored in Classical Languages (i.e. Latin and Greek) and went on to get a m