I also enjoy the surgery. I've practiced for 35 years and did a thousand hips and a thousand knees, and I loved it. I've been around the world four times with Semester at Sea, a program that takes 600 college students around the world twice a year. I was the only physician on the ship for those students and the crew for four months. I did everything, not just orthopedic surgery.
Communication is pretty important on that ship.
Since I quit doing surgery, I've really enjoyed sitting down and spending that extra time in my office, especially with the older patients, because I get to know them. It's wonderful to see how much they appreciate my spending extra time with them. Keeping up to date. It consisted of rehabilitation. It consisted of taking care of people with arthritis and tumors, though we didn't have so many treatments available.