Hello, world. Welcome to Discover Your Talent, Do What You Love, Number 159. I'm creator and host, Don Hutchison.

Every day, I interview someone from around the world who has discovered his

talents to do work he loves to create a life of success, satisfaction, and freedom. Today I'm

delighted to bring you our featured guest, Dr. Steve Calhorn. Welcome, Steve. Hey, thanks for

having me, Don. It is our pleasure. Steve, are you using your talents doing work that you love?

Yes.

Good.

We want to hear the whole story.

In his own words, Dr. Steve Calhorn says, I'm a husband, a father of two, inventor, and an

associate professor of neurosurgery at the medical university of South Carolina. I deal with

conditions that affect the brain, spinal cord, and vertebral column, including brain and spinal

tumors, degenerative conditions, and traumatic injuries. I have a particular interest in minimally

invasive, complex, and adult spinal deformity surgery. So, Steve,

that's a pithy summation of your career. Tell us what you're engaged in now that has you

excited and interested. Yeah, like I, you know, like you had mentioned, I think my field is

pretty rapidly developing, and they're always

new technologies and I love trying to find something that's going to help my patients in the least

invasive way and to find something that's going to improve their quality of life. Whether that's

from a new technology or new surgical technique. I really enjoy trying to find what that

next best thing is to help the patients that come to my office in need of care. Yes. It's interesting how

your field has, just like every field that has a strong technology base, how it's evolved in the last

20 or 30 years. My father had lower back problems 30 or 40 years ago,

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