The Paradox of Balance

摘要

The answer to "what are you looking for in a resident training program?" stopped me right in my tracks during a recent zoom interview and provided me fodder to ponder the implications of balance in one's life during a career as a surgeon. Can someone striving for a future career that requires intense study, years of hands-on surgical training, sleepless nights of call, continued postgraduate medical education, with evaluation and revaluation of outcomes, truly be balanced? Expanding this thought to other professions quickly elucidated the paradox of balance.