One Saturday, several years ago, Sumit Mohan arrived at the hospital at Columbia University

in New York City.

Sumit is a nephrologist, which is a kidney doctor, and many of his patients are waiting

for new kidneys.

So he was at the hospital to do rounds, which is a task he usually does with all the doctors

who were involved in transplanting kidneys, and that includes surgeons.

But on this particular Saturday, something strange is going on.

So I had one particular weekend where I came in, surgeons not to be found.

Now, if you guys know surgeons that are all early risers, like, you know, being in the

hospital early, and so that was a surprise.

So Sumit asked around, hey, where is everyone?

Where are all the surgeons?

It turns out they were in the operating room.

They were all doing transplant surgeries.

So Sumit figured he and the medical team would just do the rounds by themselves without

the surgeons, and he'd update them on the next day Sunday morning.

And instead, what happens is they're back in the operating room.

It's like, wait, did something go wrong earlier?

I like, no, now the patient, now the transplant.

And essentially what happened over that weekend is our surgical team transplanted five

kidneys, and I never saw them.

And so the question in my mind was like, wait a minute.

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