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Thank you. are those of the person speaking and not their employer. John Brush is a cardiologist who spent years in the cocoon of academic medicine.

Medical school, residency, rounding with teams, a fellowship at the NIH, teaching at Boston University.

When he made the shift to private practice, he thought he was prepared.

One of the things that just sort of struck me first, when you go from academics to private

practice, it's first of all you're working totally alone.

You can't lean on other people.

You have to deal with the uncertainty by yourself.

In private practice,

you're kind of a lone ranger out there, whereas before you were surrounded by people and dealing with it and discussing it and what have you, and it's sort of soften the edge of uncertainty. But

when you're in private practice alone, say, seeing a patient in the middle of the night,

by yourself, in an emergency room, trying to sort out what the heck's going on,

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