Daniel Eiferman
Tenured Professor of Surgery at Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center specializing in trauma and acute care surgery; author of "Cut Open: A Surgeon's Stories of Loss, Resilience, and Growth"
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Aug 10, 2026
Daniel EifermanGUEST
I don't totally remember all the details of what happened with that particular patient.
Daniel EifermanGUEST
But I guess the other side of the book to me was it starts with the worst complication of my career, which happened while I was about six years into practice.
Laura SuttonHOST
And I I'm curious, how did you find your way out of that difficult time? What were the tools that you used and how did you navigate through that?
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Well, I won't even go back to, like, how did you become a doctor, but let's say you as a doctor, how did you decide to start teaching and to even dive into these specific topics?
Daniel EifermanGUEST
One was my very first day of after all my training was a college, med school, residency, research, fellowship.
Daniel EifermanGUEST
First day of being a real doctor, first patient that was presented to me, I am not kidding you, was this, I wanna say, social disaster.
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Lisa LacyHOST
Why is it still so difficult for surgeons to say that was a complication, not my personal failure?
Daniel EifermanGUEST
I'm going to answer, respond with that with a great analogy that was given to me when I was coping with the worst complication that I ever had that I write about to start my book.
Daniel EifermanGUEST
It was an accounting professor, believe it or not, when I was doing my graduate work.
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